error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1

Question

I have a single .rs file. When I compile it by rustc test1.rs, I get an error:

    error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1
note: cc '-m64' '-L' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib' '-o' 'test1' 'test1.o' '-Wl,-force_load,/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libmorestack.a' '-Wl,-dead_strip' '-nodefaultlibs' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libunicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '-L' '/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0-alpha/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib' '-L' '/Users/alex/Documents/projects/rust/.rust/lib/x86_64-apple-darwin' '-L' '/Users/alex/Documents/projects/rust/lib/x86_64-apple-darwin' '-lSystem' '-lpthread' '-lc' '-lm' '-lcompiler-rt'
note: ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/Users/alex/Documents/projects/rust/.rust/lib/x86_64-apple-darwin'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/Users/alex/Documents/projects/rust/lib/x86_64-apple-darwin'
ld: can't open output file for writing: test1, errno=21 for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

error: aborting due to previous error


$ rustc --version
rustc 1.0.0-dev

I've seen some topic related to this one but none of them helped me to solve the problem.

Answer 1

From your command rustc test1.rs the compiler infers the name of the executable should be test1. The linker tries to open this file so it can write the executable but fails with errno=21 whose stringified version is "Is a directory".

This suggests you have a directory in your working directory called test1 which is causing a conflict.