Cannot compile hello world

[antoyo]

Hi.
I tried to compile a hello world example:

// Hello world!
extern fn print(str *u8)

fn main()
  print("Hello world!")

with congo and it fails with the following error:

Compile finished in 0.00372612 sec (84 kb). 0 warnings detected
/usr/sbin/ld: release/main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/sbin/ld: final link failed: nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Trying manually with gcc gives me the same result.

I'm on ArchLinux.
Thanks for your help.

[antoyo]

I can compile manually with gcc when I provide the -no-pie flag.
I'm not sure if this is the solution in your case, but that might explain something.

[jondgoodwin]

Thanks for trying out Cone. Evidently, the ArchLinux default for gcc is to compile executables as position independent. I have a PIC option on the Cone compiler, but I don't think it is currently hooked up (something I need to correct). I'm glad you found a work-around for now.