Unable to compile/run hello world

[shakemondown]

the os is debian based bookworm64 puppy linux which might be some of my problem
this error is from the terminal after entering:

~ rustc -o main.elf main.rs

error: linking with cc failed: exit status: 1
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= note: LC_ALL="C" PATH="/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:/root/.cargo/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/my-applications/bin:/usr/games:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin" VSLANG="1033" "cc" "-m64" "/tmp/rustcTQByUj/symbols.o" "main.main.e1e2a74214aae430-cgu.0.rcgu.o" "main.5b31nkelhxf94pzc.rcgu.o" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-L" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-d5189b81a4fa4d36.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-6a4779412a873200.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libobject-c88c426dd6780435.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libmemchr-e74540b31113a555.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libaddr2line-8751b61bd13c15cf.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgimli-a8b99dba9f449259.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_demangle-f0068d76172a0372.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd_detect-c16dfaf47799564e.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libhashbrown-bfa26dd63e299db5.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-75a2330a693e738f.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libminiz_oxide-76779dce1f7ab63d.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libadler-01c5cc588623cb35.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-07bb9745ec737292.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcfg_if-6eacdcc91004cefb.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-ae2488b58226c836.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-52acaddcaaba04c6.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_core-326b78eac9ecd050.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-307ebf19f0f13d30.rlib" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-d9076ee5964191bf.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lgcc_s" "-lutil" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lm" "-ldl" "-lc" "-Wl,--eh-frame-hdr" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-L" "/root/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-o" "main.elf" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now" "-nodefaultlibs"
= note: /bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory
/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

error: aborting due to 1 previous error

anyone have any clue as to how i point this tthing to scrt1.0 and crti.o?

[jofas]

@shakemondown

anyone have any clue as to how i point this tthing to scrt1.0 and crti.o?

Are you sure you have them installed? I find it more likely that you haven't installed them rather than ld being unable to locate them. You might need to run sudo apt install gcc-multilib to install crti.o (paraphrasing this SO answer). sudo apt-get install libc-dev is also suggested in another answer from the same thread.

[shakemondown]

you are probably correct.

when i attempt to install either of those packages i get something along these lines

it did let me install a diet libc-dev but it didnt seem to fix the compiler

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev-i386 : Depends: libc6-dev (= 2.36-9+deb12u7) but 2.36-9+deb12u4 is to be installed
libc6-dev-x32 : Depends: libc6-dev (= 2.36-9+deb12u7) but 2.36-9+deb12u4 is to be installed
libc6-i386 : Depends: libc6 (= 2.36-9+deb12u7) but 2.36-9+deb12u4 is to be installed
libc6-x32 : Depends: libc6 (= 2.36-9+deb12u7) but 2.36-9+deb12u4 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.