I have just install gcc and g++ on mingw.
I wrote a very simple "hello world" program to test if the g++ compiler worked.
Code:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "hello world" << endl;
return 0;
}
Compile:
g++ Test.cpp
And then some errors appear:
D:/MinGW[Finished in 0.6s with exit code 1]/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/lib/crt2.o: In function `_mingw_setargv':
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/lib/libmingwex.a(glob.o): In function `glob_match':
i:\p\giaw\src\pkg\mingwrt-4.0-1-mingw32-src\bld/../mingwrt-4.0.0-1-mingw32-src/src/libcrt/misc/glob.c:733: undefined reference to `__chkstk_ms'
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/lib/libmingwex.a(glob.o): In function `glob_strdup':
i:\p\giaw\src\pkg\mingwrt-4.0-1-mingw32-src\bld/../mingwrt-4.0.0-1-mingw32-src/src/libcrt/misc/glob.c:85: undefined reference to `__chkstk_ms'
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/lib/libmingwex.a(glob.o): In function `glob_match':
i:\p\giaw\src\pkg\mingwrt-4.0-1-mingw32-src\bld/../mingwrt-4.0.0-1-mingw32-src/src/libcrt/misc/glob.c:841: undefined reference to `__chkstk_ms'
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/lib/libmingwex.a(glob.o): In function `glob_strdup':
i:\p\giaw\src\pkg\mingwrt-4.0-1-mingw32-src\bld/../mingwrt-4.0.0-1-mingw32-src/src/libcrt/misc/glob.c:85: undefined reference to `__chkstk_ms'
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/lib/libmingwex.a(glob.o):i:\p\giaw\src\pkg\mingwrt-4.0-1-mingw32-src\bld/../mingwrt-4.0.0-1-mingw32-src/src/libcrt/misc/glob.c:85: more undefined references to `__chkstk_ms' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The orig problem seems solved regarding linking against old libs, but I have opposite case.
I need to work with older GCC 3.4 version, so I installed gcc-v3-core package.
Then orig errors immediately appear when linking a trivial source.
I found out that MinGW GCC 3.4 cannot work with mingwrt > 3.20 and the problem is that gcc-v3-core contains incorrect mingwrt spec, allowing newest vesions.
The solution is simple:
mingw-get upgrade "mingwrt=3.20.*"
!Update!
Actually with mingwrt-3.20 linker reports same errors for C++ code:
g++ hello.cpp
BAM!
Solution 2:
mingw-get upgrade "mingwrt=3.18.*"
the last one that seems to work with gcc-v3-g++.
Here's an authoritative answer, from a MinGW project administrator.
Your problem arises because you continue to use an obsolete, (no longer maintained; no longer supported), version of GCC. Current versions of mingwrt are compiled using GCC-4.x, (I used GCC-4.8.2 for mingwrt-3.21 and its descendants), and this introduces the dependencies on __chkstk_ms, (which is provided by libgcc -- a GCC-4.x specific library, which is incompatible with GCC-3.x).
FWIW, I can reproduce your issue if I install a GCC-4.8.2 built mingwrt-3.21.1 into a GCC-3.4.5 installation. By the same token, I can also successfully use mingwrt-3.21.1 with GCC-3.4.5, if I build it with that same version of GCC.
Thus, for an authoritative answer: if you must continue to use an obsolete GCC version, you need to be prepared to rebuild all associated libraries, using that same obsolete compiler.
I had a similar problem, which arose because I foolishly installed a newer version into an old installation. The fix was obvious, I backed up my old installation, then deleted it and done a fresh install. Everything compiled perfectly. Old habits die hard I guess. ;)
This might be a "modern" answer to the original question: You may miss the stdc++ and gcc library in MinGW, have to link them by yourself manually.
