ld: cannot find crt2.o: No such file or directory

[ArtemGr]

Recently there's been a linking error building kernel32-sys with the latest Rust nightlies.

rustc --version: rustc 1.1.0-nightly (ce1150b9f 2015-05-04) (built 2015-05-04)

Building Racer:

smolny:~/rust/racer$ cargo build
   Compiling kernel32-sys v0.1.0
   Compiling bitflags v0.1.1
   Compiling libc v0.1.6
   Compiling rustc-serialize v0.3.14
   Compiling unicode-xid v0.0.1
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: "gcc" "-Wl,--enable-long-section-names" "-fno-use-linker-plugin" "-Wl,--nxcompat" "-static-libgcc" "-m64" "-L" "C:\spool\Rust\bin\rust                                        lib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-o" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\build\kernel32-sys-852914e74bb6c4c5\build_script_bui                                        ld.exe" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\build\kernel32-sys-852914e74bb6c4c5\build_script_build.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-                                        L" "C:\spool\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-lstd-4e7c5e5c" "-L" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\deps" "-L                                        " "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\deps" "-L" "\\?\C:\spool\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-L" "C:\spool\cy                                        gwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\.rust\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-L" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-Wl,--wh                                        ole-archive" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lws2_32" "-luserenv" "-lcompiler-rt"
note: ld: cannot find crt2.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtend.o: No such file or directory

error: aborting due to previous error
Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
Could not compile `kernel32-sys`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

Verbose:

error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: "gcc" "-Wl,--enable-long-section-names" "-fno-use-linker-plugin" "-Wl,--nxcompat" "-static-libgcc" "-m64" "-L" "C:\spool\Rus
t\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-o" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\build\kernel32-sys-852914e74bb6c
4c5\build_script_build.exe" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\build\kernel32-sys-852914e74bb6c4c5\build_script_b
uild.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-L" "C:\spool\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-lstd-4e7c5e5c" "-L" "C:\spool\cygwin\home
\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\deps" "-L" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\deps" "-L" "\\?\C:\spool\Rust\bin\ru
stlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-L" "C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\.rust\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-L" "C:\spool\cygwi
n\home\Artem\rust\racer\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-Wl,--whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "
-lws2_32" "-luserenv" "-lcompiler-rt"
note: ld: cannot find crt2.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtend.o: No such file or directory

error: aborting due to previous error
Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
Could not compile `kernel32-sys`.

Caused by:
  Process didn't exit successfully: `rustc C:\Users\Артем\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\kernel32-sys-0.1.0\build
.rs --crate-name build_script_build --crate-type bin -C prefer-dynamic -g --out-dir C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\d
ebug\build\kernel32-sys-852914e74bb6c4c5 --emit=dep-info,link -L dependency=C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\dep
s -L dependency=C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer\target\debug\deps -Awarnings` (exit code: 101)

C:\spool\cygwin\home\Artem\rust\racer>

Worked fine before.

I wonder if I'm not alone in seeing this problem?

[tomaka]

You're probably seeing rust-lang/rust#25072
I don't think this is related to winapi-rs.

[ArtemGr]

Right, thanks!