eld Manual

Output Listings and Error Handling
eld Manual—527255-009
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Error Messages
Recovery. You shouldn’t have a DLL whose filename ends in “.a”, so you need to fix
your build procedure.
Cause. You specified the -l option, to tell eld to search for a DLL or archive based on
the string given as the parameter to the -l option, and eld was able to find and open a
file, but the file was a linkfile, such as an object file produced from a compilation, not a
DLL or archive. eld considers that an error, since the convention is to only use -l
options to search for DLLs and archives, not linkfiles.
Effect. Fatal error (eld immediately stops without creating an output file).
Recovery. Perhaps there is a DLL or archive that you wanted eld to find, but instead
eld first found a linkfile of the same name. The rules for searching for DLLs and
archives are complicated. You may need to review all the rules by which eld does the
search, to determine where the DLL or archive should be placed, and how eld should
be told to look there. You might decide it’s easier to just put the fully qualified name of
the DLL or archive directly on the command line, without using the -l option at all. If
you really did intend to use the linkfile that was found, the easiest thing is to just put its
fully qualified name on the command line.
Cause. eld was searching for a DLL based on a liblist entry of some other previously
opened DLL, to indirectly bring another DLL into this link, and eld was able to find and
open a file, but the file was a linkfile, such as an object file produced from a
compilation, not a DLL.
Effect. Fatal error (eld immediately stops without creating an output file).
Recovery. Perhaps there is a DLL that you expected eld to find, but instead eld first
found a linkfile of the same name. The rules for searching for DLLs are complicated.
You may need to review all the rules by which eld does the search, to determine
where the DLL should be placed, and how eld should be told to look there.
Cause. You specified the -make_implicit_lib option, to build one of the implicit DLLs
that contain the contents of system library. Such implicit DLLs may refer to other
implicit DLLs, but not to any other DLLs. However, during this link, eld was given
another DLL to use, where that other DLL wasn’t marked as an implicit DLL, so that’s
an error.
Effect. Fatal error (eld immediately stops without creating an output file).
1100 <filename> is a linkfile, but it was found for a -l
option.
1101 <filename> is a linkfile, but it was found as an
indirect DLL.
1102 Making an implicit DLL, but <filename> isn't implicit.