ld

Link object files into an executable program

Description

The ld command is the GNU linker, which links object files into an executable program.

Syntax

ld (options) (parameters)
ld [options] objfile ...

Options

-o: Specify the output filename;
-e: Specify the entry point symbol of the program.

Parameters

Object file: Specify the object files to be linked.

Examples

This tells ld to produce a file called output by linking the file /lib/crt0.o with hello.o and the library libc.a, which will come from the standard search directories.

ld -o <output> /lib/crt0.o hello.o -lc
ld -o output /lib/crt0.o hello.o -lc