/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-plugin' error

Question

Dear I am new in C++ and Linux as well I am getting the folliwng error while compiling a programm

/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-plugin'

/usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

The installed gcc compiler is gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Sadly, this error is showing up in other places, like [“C compiler cannot create executables” in libssh2 during npm install](http://stackoverflow.com/q/38751514). — jww, Aug 03 '16 at 20:45
I have edited the question so that it can be re-opened. But cutting to the chase: the answer is that you need to use a newer version of `ld`. The linker is not provided by gcc but instead by the binutils package. — Keith Hanlan, Aug 21 '19 at 17:40

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 16:02

Your Makefile must be passing the -plugin option to the linker - it's your make configuration that you have to fix. There are three locations to check off the top of my head:

Look for a -plugin option being inserted into the LDFLAGS variable. The contents of that variable are passed straight to the linker as arguments.
Look for a -Wl,-plugin option being inserted into the CFLAGS variable. That variable is passed as an argument list to the compiler, and gcc uses the -Wl,... option to pass arguments to the linker.
Look for either option being used in a direct call to ld or gcc (or cc, or c++ or...).

Bottom line: grep your make configuration files and any scripts used in your build system for -plugin and make sure that option only goes where it should.

option four: Your version of the linker is too old for the version of gcc that you are using. The linker is provided by the `binutils` package. Install a newer version (e.g. binutils/7.30) and you will find that this error message goes away. — Keith Hanlan, Aug 23 '19 at 19:49

/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-plugin' error

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