macos - ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o on OSX 10.6 with gcc/clang -static flag

Question

When I try to build the following program:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  printf("hello world
");
  return 0;
}

On OS X 10.6.4, with the following flags:

gcc -static -o blah blah.c

It returns this:

ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Has anyone else encountered this, or is it something that noone else has been affected with yet? Any fixes?

Thanks

Answer 1

This won’t work. From the man page for gcc:

This option will not work on Mac OS X unless all libraries (including libgcc.a) have also been compiled with -static. Since neither a static version of libSystem.dylib nor crt0.o are provided, this option is not useful to most people.