Solution for /bin/ld.exe: cannot find : Invalid argument collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I decided to try build my NetBurner’s CMake template in NNDK 2.9.x that ships with GCC 8.1.0.

I repeated the steps in the README and suddenly got a strange linker error:

C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/m68k-elf-g++.exe 
--sysroot=C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../m68k-unknown-elf/sysroot -mcpu=54415 
-gdwarf-2 -falign-functions=4 -ffunction-sections -fmessage-length=0 
-fdata-sections -fno-rtti -DMOD5441X -DMCF5441X -DNBMINGW 
-IC:/nburn/gcc-m68k/m68k-unknown-elf/include      -IC:/nburn/include      
-IC:/nburn/MOD5441X/include     
-IC:/nburn/gcc-m68k/m68k-unknown-elf/include/c++/8.1.0      -O3     -DNDEBUG   
-mcpu=54415 -Wl,-n -TC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/MOD5441X.ld         
-Wl,-RC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/sys.ld  
"CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/main.cpp.obj" 
"CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/htmldata.cpp.obj"  
-o Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf  
-Wl,-Map=G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8/Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.map  
-Wl,--start-group, C:/nburn/lib/MOD5441X.a C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a 
C:/nburn/lib/FatFile.a C:/nburn/lib/StdFFile.a -lstdc++  -Wl,--end-group 
-Wl,--gc-sections
c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find : Invalid argument
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make.exe[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/build.make:117: Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf] Error 1
make.exe[3]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
make.exe[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:126: CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/all] Error 2
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:106: CMakeFiles/app.dir/rule] Error 2
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
make.exe: *** [Makefile:137: app] Error 2

It says that it can not find nothing:

c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find : Invalid argument
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I really don’t understand from that message what is the cause of the error. Is there something expanded to empty string?

Googling didn’t help me because in the majority of cases on StackOverflow were asked simple cases.

-Bstatic and similar flags don’t used for my case.

In the project a custom *.cmake file for NetBurner toolchain is used to configure a build.

It calls the helper function where a linking is defined in the same manner as it done in the original makefiles from NetBurner.

For GCC 5.2.0 it worked, but for GCC 8.1.0 it doesn’t. Why? How to repair my cmake scripts?

Solution

Let’s try to add linker options -t --verbose in that line after the first -Wl, symbols and look at the huge output:

Click to expand

$ cmake --build . --target app -- VERBOSE=1
"C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe" -SG:/cmake-netburner-hello-world -BG:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8 --check-build-system CMakeFiles/Makefile.cmake 0
C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/make.exe  -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 app
make.exe[1]: Entering directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
"C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe" -SG:/cmake-netburner-hello-world -BG:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8 --check-build-system CMakeFiles/Makefile.cmake 0
"C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe" -E cmake_progress_start G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8/CMakeFiles 3
C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/make.exe  -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 CMakeFiles/app.dir/all
make.exe[2]: Entering directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/make.exe  -f CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/depend
make.exe[3]: Entering directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
"C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe" -E cmake_depends "Unix Makefiles" G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8 G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8 G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8/CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/DependInfo.cmake --color=
make.exe[3]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/make.exe  -f CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/build
make.exe[3]: Entering directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
[ 33%] Linking CXX executable Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf
C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/m68k-elf-g++.exe --sysroot=C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../m68k-unknown-elf/sysroot 
-mcpu=54415 -gdwarf-2 -falign-functions=4 -ffunction-sections -fmessage-length=0 
-fdata-sections -fno-rtti -DMOD5441X -DMCF5441X -DNBMINGW 
-IC:/nburn/gcc-m68k/m68k-unknown-elf/include      -I"C:\nburn/include"    
-I"C:\nburn/MOD5441X/include"   
-I"C:\nburn/gcc-m68k/m68k-unknown-elf/include/c++/8.1.0"    -O3     -DNDEBUG 
-mcpu=54415 -Wl,-t --verbose -Wl,-n -Wl,-TC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/MOD5441X.ld 
-Wl,-RC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/sys.ld  
-Wl,-Map=G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8/Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.map 
./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/main.cpp.obj 
./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/htmldata.cpp.obj  
-o Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf -Wl,--gc-sections 
-Wl,--start-group, C:/nburn/lib/MOD5441X.a C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a 
C:/nburn/lib/FatFile.a C:/nburn/lib/StdFFile.a -lstdc++ -Wl,--end-group
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\nburn\gcc-m68k\bin\m68k-elf-g++.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../libexec/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: m68k-unknown-elf
Configured with: /home/ubuntu/build/.build/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/src/gcc/configure 
--build=x86_64-build_pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-host_pc-mingw32 
--target=m68k-unknown-elf 
--prefix=/home/ubuntu/x-tools/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf 
--with-local-prefix=/home/ubuntu/x-tools/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/m68k-unknown-elf 
--with-headers=/home/ubuntu/x-tools/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/m68k-unknown-elf/include 
--with-newlib --enable-threads=no --disable-shared 
--with-pkgversion='crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.23.0-328-g590eddf' 
--enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libmpx 
--disable-libssp --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support 
--with-gmp=/home/ubuntu/build/.build/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/buildtools/complibs-host 
--with-mpfr=/home/ubuntu/build/.build/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/buildtools/complibs-host 
--with-mpc=/home/ubuntu/build/.build/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/buildtools/complibs-host 
--with-isl=/home/ubuntu/build/.build/HOST-mingw32/m68k-unknown-elf/buildtools/complibs-host 
--disable-lto --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc -Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++ -lm' 
--enable-target-optspace --disable-nls --enable-multiarch 
--with-multilib-list=rmprofile --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: single
gcc version 8.1.0 (crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.23.0-328-g590eddf)
COMPILER_PATH=c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../libexec/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/;c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../libexec/gcc/;c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/bin/
LIBRARY_PATH=c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455/;c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/m54455/;c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/;c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/;c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-mcpu=54415' '-gdwarf-2' '-falign-functions=4' 
'-ffunction-sections' '-fmessage-length=0' '-fdata-sections' '-fno-rtti' '-D' 
'MOD5441X' '-D' 'MCF5441X' '-D' 'NBMINGW' '-I' 
'C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/m68k-unknown-elf/include' '-I' 'C:\nburn/include' '-I' 
'C:\nburn/MOD5441X/include' '-I' 
'C:\nburn/gcc-m68k/m68k-unknown-elf/include/c++/8.1.0' '-O3' '-D' 'NDEBUG' 
'-mcpu=54415' '-v' '-o' 'Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf'
 c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../libexec/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/collect2.exe 
 --sysroot=C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../m68k-unknown-elf/sysroot 
 -o Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf 
 c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455/crtbegin.o 
 -Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455 
 -Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/m54455 
 -Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0 
 -Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc 
 -Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib 
 -t -n -TC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/MOD5441X.ld -RC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/sys.ld 
 -Map=G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8/Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.map 
 ./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/main.cpp.obj 
 ./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/htmldata.cpp.obj 
 --gc-sections --start-group "" C:/nburn/lib/MOD5441X.a C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a 
 C:/nburn/lib/FatFile.a C:/nburn/lib/StdFFile.a -lstdc++ --end-group -lstdc++ 
 -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc 
 c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455/crtend.o
c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: mode m68kelf
nb-crt0.o (c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455\nb-crt0.o)
c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455/crtbegin.o
(c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/m54455\libc.a)lib_a-atexit.o
(c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/m54455\libc.a)lib_a-__atexit.o
(c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/m54455\libc.a)lib_a-__call_atexit.o
./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/main.cpp.obj
./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/htmldata.cpp.obj
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)udp.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)tcp.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)http.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)httpstricmp.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)autoip.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)dhcpc.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)taskmon.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)autoupdate.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)nbprintf.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)nbsiprintf.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)nbsprintf.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)weakumain.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)cusermain.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)websocket_handler.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_addr.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_tcp.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_ip.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_udp.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_printhelp.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_extensions.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_multicast.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_show.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ipv6_dhcp.o
(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)ucosmcfc.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)extraio.o
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(C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a)md5c.o
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c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find : Invalid argument
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

make.exe[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/build.make:117: Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf] Error 1
make.exe[3]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
make.exe[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:126: CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/all] Error 2
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:106: CMakeFiles/app.dir/rule] Error 2
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory 'G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8'
make.exe: *** [Makefile:137: app] Error 2

Now we are interested in where collect2 is called and which arguments are passing in.

c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../libexec/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/collect2.exe 
--sysroot=C:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../m68k-unknown-elf/sysroot 
-o Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.elf 
c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455/crtbegin.o 
-Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455 
-Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib/m54455 
-Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0 
-Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc 
-Lc:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/../../../../m68k-unknown-elf/lib 
-t -n -TC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/MOD5441X.ld -RC:/nburn/MOD5441X/lib/sys.ld 
-Map=G:/cmake-netburner-hello-world/build_m68k_gcc8/Release/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.map 
./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/main.cpp.obj 
./CMakeFiles/cmake-netburner-hello-world_0.0.5.dir/htmldata.cpp.obj 
--gc-sections --start-group "" C:/nburn/lib/MOD5441X.a C:/nburn/lib/NetBurner.a 
C:/nburn/lib/FatFile.a C:/nburn/lib/StdFFile.a -lstdc++ --end-group 
-lstdc++ -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc 
c:/nburn/gcc-m68k/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-unknown-elf/8.1.0/m54455/crtend.o

Look. Wtf! Where did these quotation marks come from?

... --start-group "" ...

From extra comma after --start-group!

... -Wl,--start-group,${NBLIBS} ...

We just found the cause of the error! It was completely not obvious. Fix is simple:

... -Wl,--start-group ${NBLIBS} ...

Now it is successfully linking with both mentioned versions of GCC.

Conclusions

If you have such error then most probably it is due to stupid typo(s) in linker arguments.

Try the following:

Enable tracing and verbose output when executing a linker
Thoroughly study the received output

Maybe it will help to someone.