https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109460
--- Comment #25 from Huaqi <fanghuaqi at vip dot qq.com> --- Hi here is what I tested in Ubuntu 18.04 root@1aae7bc8a1f6:/work/LocalBuilds/2023.04-eng2_20230412_014350/build-gcc-newlib-stage1/gcc# i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -nostdlib -r utf8rc-mingw32.o sym-mingw32.o -o utf8-mingw32.o root@1aae7bc8a1f6:/work/LocalBuilds/2023.04-eng2_20230412_014350/build-gcc-newlib-stage1/gcc# i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.3-win32/lto-wrapper Target: i686-w64-mingw32 Configured with: ../../src/configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir='/usr/include' --mandir='/usr/share/man' --infodir='/usr/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libdir='/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --libexecdir='/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-multilib --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-tune=generic --with-headers=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/include --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-libgomp --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada --enable-lto --with-plugin-ld --enable-threads=win32 --program-suffix=-win32 --program-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-as=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-as --with-ld=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld --enable-libatomic --enable-libstdcxx-filesystem-ts=yes Thread model: win32 gcc version 7.3-win32 20180312 (GCC) root@1aae7bc8a1f6:/work/LocalBuilds/2023.04-eng2_20230412_014350/build-gcc-newlib-stage1/gcc# i686-w64-mingw32-objdump -t utf8-mingw32.o|grep -i startup root@1aae7bc8a1f6:/work/LocalBuilds/2023.04-eng2_20230412_014350/build-gcc-newlib-stage1/gcc# gcc 7.2 with -r works for me. Thanks