linker could not find symbol ...

[jakebailey]

I'm trying to build a version of the Go port of the TypeScript compiler with tinygo. The code is here: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/tree/main/cmd/tsgo

When I just do a regular build, I get:

$ ~/tinygo/bin/tinygo build -o tsgo-tinygo ./cmd/tsgo
/home/jabaile/tinygo/src/internal/futex/futex_linux.c:24: linker could not find symbol syscall
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:896: linker could not find symbol strtoul
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:1037: linker could not find symbol open
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:1128: linker could not find symbol atol
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:1139: linker could not find symbol atoi
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:1148: linker could not find symbol atol
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:1160: linker could not find symbol atoi
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/misc.c:1173: linker could not find symbol atoi
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/os_dep.c:235: linker could not find symbol open
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/os_dep.c:1170: linker could not find symbol open
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/os_dep.c:1200: linker could not find symbol strtoul
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/os_dep.c:2916: linker could not find symbol strtoul
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/os_dep.c:3849: linker could not find symbol fcntl
../../../../usr/local/lib/tinygo/lib/bdwgc/os_dep.c:3946: linker could not find symbol uname

But, I definitely have glibc installed such that those should be found.

Am I just "holding it wrong", and there's a different way to build a plain binary for my system?

[aykevl]

A tinygo clean should fix this.

(We should eventually really fix this issue, but for now tinygo clean is a workaround - essentially, you have a stale cache).

[jakebailey]

Thanks, a tinygo clean did fix this. That explains why I was making more progress when I switched to trying out a wasm build. Unfortunately I crash at runtime though other problems, but, those are already reported 😄

[ben-krieger]

tinygo clean fixed some of my missing symbols (strtoul, atol, etc. - same as OP). However, there are two that remain and seem to be related to Go 1.24 changes:

[nix...]-go-1.24.1/share/go/src/crypto/internal/sysrand/rand.go:48: linker could not find symbol crypto/internal/sysrand.fatal
[nix...]-tinygo-0.37.0/share/tinygo/src/internal/syscall/unix/getrandom.go:26: linker could not find symbol runtime.vgetrandom