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Re: thin linking: "file is not of required architecture"
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Re: thin linking: "file is not of required architecture"


  • Subject: Re: thin linking: "file is not of required architecture"
  • From: Philip Hölzenspies <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:01:55 +0100

On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Chris Espinosa wrote:
On Apr 10, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Philip Hölzenspies wrote:
$ ld -r -o linked.o libMyListMod.so libMyListTree.so
ld: warning -arch not specified
ld: warning in libMyListMod.so, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning in libMyListTree.so, file is not of required architecture

What's in these .so files? What created them? Try the 'file' command, which will tell you whether they are indeed linkable binaries.


If they're shared libraries (in which case, the Mac OS X convention for file extension is '.dylib", not ".so"), then they should probably follow, rather than precede, your object files on the link line. And there don't seem to be any object code input files (.o or .a). And the output of the linker is normally either a static archive (.a) or a dynamic library (.dylib), or the executable for an app or command-line tool.

So let's start from "What are you really trying to do?"

Dear Chris, Alastair, all,

I had a workshop all of last week, so my linking problem went on the back-burner.

The problem I have with isolating an example is that people will remain intent on trying to find a workaround for the example. I am trying to learn how to interpret this linker message. All the .so files that I include in the linking have been built with the same gcc/ ld and using the same CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables.

The call to gcc I posted is generated by a compiler under development, that compiles a high-level language down to c and hands that to gcc. This is what I'm trying to do. Some of the intermediate results are built to a /tmp/... directory, i.e. all referenced code in /tmp/... is code from the same build-cycle.

With regards to the dylib/so discussion: I want to wash my hands of it. Our compiler uses BSD conventions. I'm not quite sure on the issue, but somehow I have this idea in the back of my mind that dylib defaults to objective-c calling conventions. I actually require ANSI-C calling conventions, because other stuff will be linked against my libs. Mind you, a lot of the default Mac installation comes with .so files (apache2, sasl2, openmpi, zsh, pam, to name but a few examples).

In short: does anybody know whether there is a way to find out what architectures ld is looking for and when/why/where it made that decision? Just to make it clear: I don't want a workaround for my current specific problem, but I want to understand how to solve this class of problems in the future.

Kind regards,
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