Link MinGW .a static C libraries with GoLink-CodePudding

I'm trying to make an SDL2 program with NASM and GoLink just for fun but I can't link SDL2main.a and SDL2 to my executable. I'm on a win64 architecture.

My main.asm


[bits 64]

extern ExitProcess

extern SDL_Init
extern SDL_Quit


SDL_INIT_VIDEO equ 0x00000020

section .text

    _start:
        mov rcx, SDL_INIT_VIDEO
        call SDL_Init

        call SDL_Quit

        xor rcx, rcx
        call ExitProcess

and this is the way I build my .exe :

nasm -f win64 main.asm -o main.obj
.\GoLink.exe /console /entry _start /fo prog.exe main.obj kernel32.dll

and I get the following error :

GoLink.Exe Version 1.0.4.1  Copyright Jeremy Gordon 2002-2022   [email protected]

Error!
The following symbols were not defined in the object file or files:-
SDL_Init
SDL_Quit
Output file not made

My static libs are located in a ./lib folder if it can help.

CodePudding user response：

GoLink doesn't understand the .a static library file format that MinGW based tool chains create. If you intend to use GoLink, you will need to get a copy of the SDL2 library that works with the Microsoft tools and linker.

In your case you will want the SDL2 development libraries for Visual C on their download page rather than the MinGW libraries that you are currently using.