Fresh install of rustup gives "linking with cc failed: exit status: 1"

[fenilli]

Verification

• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen%2Cclosed and found no duplicates.
• I am on the latest version of Rustup according to https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/tags and am still able to reproduce my issue.

Problem

A fresh install of rustup in zorin os gives:

cargo run
   Compiling no_name v0.1.0 (/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name)
error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
  |
  = note: LC_ALL="C" PATH="/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:/home/fenilli/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin" VSLANG="1033" "cc" "-m64" "/tmp/rustc6IMaA7/symbols.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.1zbf99ndv6939puzzn6p26los.rcgu.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.6wyyaja2umqw0d8nt270u13qk.rcgu.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.a2itg91xahkldzw9kgyfucify.rcgu.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.b63fvr20l2futxsmbbgwfruuc.rcgu.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.d5edjvb0dhmcc8rhbcpcj7eh0.rcgu.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.evagspyinn64el5p25h45l1mh.rcgu.o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702.62x3n5mj3d6xfq6oruf39yz7c.rcgu.o" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-L" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps" "-L" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-1c4b19562077c20d.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-85a631ebc91746e0.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libobject-fdace1a0b4cda412.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libmemchr-e5c28d21823e9a85.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libaddr2line-1e0edbcd516a8cce.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgimli-77a1dc5e8fb357d6.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_demangle-8c9d2edb6dff139f.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd_detect-ecadd85ae8bacc0c.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libhashbrown-67895a0c8dd8130b.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-5b4263e767961458.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libminiz_oxide-4f03d5a171522141.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libadler-9e4e8543de06315e.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-7fc51dfce9c057eb.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcfg_if-7ec98a9b1cc1792f.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-2f9b4333f6d32438.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-b6fe0262c36c500a.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_core-2a862c0b1c86f483.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-500f37ee5bcf0ffe.rlib" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-06dfbf1de02fde3b.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lgcc_s" "-lutil" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lm" "-ldl" "-lc" "-Wl,--eh-frame-hdr" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-L" "/home/fenilli/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-o" "/home/fenilli/Desktop/no_name/target/debug/deps/no_name-d9b90d4be2419702" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now" "-nodefaultlibs"
  = note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory
          /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
          collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
          

error: could not compile `no_name` (bin "no_name") due to 1 previous error

Steps

1. Install rustup using curl
2. Run cargo new no_name
3. Run cargo run or cargo build

Possible Solution(s)

Add mention in the documentation or FAQ about this common problem with solutions to it like sudo apt install gcc-multilib for ubuntu.

Notes

No response

Rustup version

rustup 1.27.1 (54dd3d0 2024-04-24)

Installed toolchains

Default host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
rustup home: /home/fenilli/.rustup

stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
rustc 1.81.0 (eeb90cda1 2024-09-04)

OS version

Distributor ID: Zorin
Description: Zorin OS 17.2
Release: 17
Codename: jammy

[rami3l]

@fenilli Thanks for filing this issue!

This looks more like a general question regarding the actual usage of the Rust toolchain rather than the scope of this project, i.e. its distribution.

As such, I'm closing this issue as a duplicate of rust-lang/rust#25289.

Installing multilib is indeed the solution of one of the possible root causes (rust-lang/rust#25289 (comment)), but an ld exit code of 1 could mean many different things and needs to be analyzed case by case.