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I'm studying Assembly and I need to compile a piece of C code into a 32-bit executable file. The issue is that I keep getting this error. I've tried installing gcc-multilib and g++-lib, but it hasn't helped. Anyone know what might be going on?

> gcc main.s -m32 -o main

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgcc_s.so when searching for -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Using gcc version 4.8.5 (Ubuntu 4.8.5-4ubuntu4) on Ubuntu 16.10.

Update: Added the compilation command. I compiled the .s file beforehand using gcc -m32 -S main.c because I needed to have a look at the Assembly code.

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The gcc-multilib package only provides 32-bit support for the current default compiler.

Since you are using a non-default compiler (gcc-4.8 versus the system's default gcc-6) you will need to install the underlying version-specific multilib package explicitly e.g.

sudo apt install gcc-4.8-multilib

(or the equivalent from your favorite package manager).

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