Help with linker

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Hello, I am new to this site, and have been developing an operating system. My problem: I can't use regular ld command with argument -T.

I have googled for a long time but with no results. Here is my specs:

* Developing on: Macbook, while 2010, Xcode 3.2, with i686-pc-elf toolchain installed.

Any help would be awesome. Thanks!!

-- wxwsk8er

[zhiayang]

You cannot use OS X's 'ld' tool to link.
Make a GCC Cross Compiler, then use the LD from your i686-elf-pc-ld to link.

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You cannot use OS X's 'ld' tool to link.
Make a GCC Cross Compiler, then use the LD from your i686-elf-pc-ld to link.

When do this:

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walt-pachs-macbook:~ Walt$ /usr/i686-pc-elf/bin/ld -T
  /usr/i686-pc-elf/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-T'
  /usr/i686-pc-elf/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information

When I use it directly:

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walt-pachs-macbook:~ Walt$ i686-pc-elf-ld -T
  i686-pc-elf-ld: unrecognized option '-T'
  i686-pc-elf-ld: use the --help option for usage information

When I use ld.gold:

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walt-pachs-macbook:~ Walt$ /usr/i686-pc-elf/bin/ld.gold -T
  /usr/i686-pc-elf/bin/ld.gold: -T: missing argument
  /usr/i686-pc-elf/bin/ld.gold: use the --help option for usage information

So ld.gold works fine, but the rest do not. Unless I call gcc and ask for a linkage...

Thanks for the help

[Combuster]

I have a nagging suspicion that none of those cross-linkers were built according to the tutorial though.

[jnc100]

Even my cross compiler gives this error when run with the -T option and no linker script name specified:

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$ i586-elf-ld -T
i586-elf-ld: unrecognized option '-T'
i586-elf-ld: use the --help option for usage information

You also have to specify a linker script file.

Regards,
John.

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I downloaded the binarys, but I will try what you said. With the option and let you know how it works thanks!!

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It worked!!

Thanks for all your help!!