Linker error on ArchLinux

I’m getting a linker error when running make (Additionally I’ve tried adding -fPIC to the compilation options however this hasn’t solved the issue.)

See below command output and versions. From commit dff63246fed84d90118441b8ba5b5d3bdd094427 make output:

cc  -c injector.c -o injector.o -Wall                                                                                                                                                        
injector.c:321:93: warning: excess elements in array initializer                                                                                                                             
  .start={.bytes={0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00}, .len=0},                                                                                 
                                                                                             ^~~~                                                                                            
injector.c:321:93: note: (near initialization for ‘total_range.start.bytes’)                                                                                                                 
injector.c:322:91: warning: excess elements in array initializer                                                                                                                             
  .end={.bytes={0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff}, .len=0},                                                                                   
                                                                                           ^~~~                                                                                              
injector.c:322:91: note: (near initialization for ‘total_range.end.bytes’)                                                                                                                   
cc  injector.o -O3 -Wall -l:libcapstone.a -o injector -pthread                                                                                                                               
/usr/bin/ld: injector.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against undefined symbol `dummy_stack' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC                                    
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output                                                                                                                           
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:35: injector] Error 1 

cc --version : cc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170630

ld --version: GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.28.0.20170506

[rigred]

I simply compiled the injector as static which solved the problem of

/usr/bin/ld: injector.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against undefined symbol `dummy_stack' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

cc injector.o -O3 -Wall -l:libcapstone.a -o injector -pthread -static

however --no-pie also works on gcc7

[NanXiao]

I come across similar issue when building other software in Arch Linux, and hope my post can help you.