Compiling using arm-none-eabi-gcc and linking library liba.a error

Question

I am compiling a hello world program in C on a 64-bit Linux machine. I am using a GCC ARM embedded toolchain to cross compile my program on a FOX G20 V board with an ATMEL AT91SAM9G20 processor.

On the first take, I had a few errors when compiling because the program didn't recognize the printf, return etc. functions (the standard C functions). So I decided to make the link between the functions, which I believe are defined in the libc.a library (correct me if I'm wrong), by doing arm-none-eabi-gcc -o hello hello.c libc.a but the outcome still results in errors:

libc.a(lib_a-exit.o): In function `exit':
exit.c:(.text.exit+0x16): undefined reference to `_exit'
libc.a(lib_a-sbrkr.o): In function `_sbrk_r':
sbrkr.c:(.text._sbrk_r+0xc): undefined reference to `_sbrk'
libc.a(lib_a-writer.o): In function `_write_r':
writer.c:(.text._write_r+0x10): undefined reference to `_write'
libc.a(lib_a-closer.o): In function `_close_r':
closer.c:(.text._close_r+0xc): undefined reference to `_close'
libc.a(lib_a-fstatr.o): In function `_fstat_r':
fstatr.c:(.text._fstat_r+0xe): undefined reference to `_fstat'
libc.a(lib_a-isattyr.o): In function `_isatty_r':
isattyr.c:(.text._isatty_r+0xc): undefined reference to `_isatty'
libc.a(lib_a-lseekr.o): In function `_lseek_r':
lseekr.c:(.text._lseek_r+0x10): undefined reference to `_lseek'
libc.a(lib_a-readr.o): In function `_read_r':
readr.c:(.text._read_r+0x10): undefined reference to `_read'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm really unsure as to why the program still does not recognize the standard functions even though I've linked the library to the application. If anyone has a reason as to why, or a solution as to how I can fix this problem, I would be very grateful.

UPDATE

I've downloaded the glibc library from here. I've compiled and created a static library from the syscalls.c library that I found in newlib-2.1.0/libgloss/arm and when I link the library to my application code, I still get the same error.

Solution 1

Try executing this:

arm-none-eabi-gcc --specs=rdimon.specs -lgcc -lc -lm -lrdimon -o hello hello.c

Your toolkit seems to provide the librdimon.a, a library which provides the basic standard C functions.

Solution 2

I got this error because my binary cannot fit the ROM.

My first error was:

address 0x34000 of arm_flash.elf section `.mmu_tbl' is not within region `ps7_ram_0`

Then I've got the same list of undefined reference errors.

I need to reduce the binary size, by removing new keywords, and all dynamic memory allocation from my C++ code.