eld Manual

Output Listings and Error Handling
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Error Messages
Cause. You gave an option to ask eld to create an import library, and eld was unable
to create the import library in the specified location, and you also gave the -
must_use_iname option to say that eld should consider that failure an error.
Effect. Fatal error (eld immediately stops without creating an output file).
Recovery. If there already was a file with the same name as the file you wanted to
create, and you didn’t have permission to delete it, specify a different filename for the
new version of the object file. Or, if there is some reason why you cannot rename one
filename to another filename in the target location (Guardian subvolume, OSS
directory, or PC folder), that could also lead to this message, but that is an operating
system question that is beyond the scope of this document.
Cause. The C++ compiler marks some symbols as “globalized” symbols, because the
fixups to such symbols need to follow special rules at runtime. You have globalized
symbols in the files that you are linking together, as indicated in the message. You
have also given the -instance_data option with a parameter value of data2hidden
or data2protected. That means that you are creating a program or DLL that has
special requirements on how data is protected, and in such cases globalized symbols
are not allowed.
Effect. Fatal error (eld immediately stops without creating an output file).
Recovery. Assuming you do need to make the special kind of program or DLL that
requires that -instance_data option, you probably need to look over your C++
source code to figure out why it has globalized symbols in it, and change the code to
avoid that. It is beyond the scope of this manual to explain the rules that the C++
compiler uses in deciding which globalized symbols to create.
Cause. You have specified two different -rename options that have a symbol name
in common. In other words, perhaps you are trying to rename the same symbol to two
other names, or you are trying to rename two different symbols to the same name, or
you are trying to rename “A” to “B” and “B” to “C”. None of these possibilities is
allowed.
Effect. Fatal error (eld immediately stops without creating an output file).
Recovery. These possibilities are not allowed because they are too complicated. Are
you sure you didn’t misspell the names of some symbols? If you really want to do
these kinds of things, in a situation where it would make sense, you can probably
accomplish that goal using multiple link steps, doing one of the renamings each time,
1581 Globalized symbols (first one: <symbol name>) are not
allowed when the -instance_data option is specified with the
data2hidden or data2protected parameter value.
1584 The same symbol, <symbol name>, occurs in two -rename
options.