invalid magic number ?

[Pedro Pontes]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile a C program in a HP-UX 11.00, and I'm recieving the error message: "Not a valid object file (invalid magic number)". Does any one knows anything about this error? All I know is that chatr returns to me a valid magic number (i.e., "shared executable").
COuuld it be some 32-bit /64-bit compilation problem?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Pedro:

I suspect that you are not having compile problems but rather linking problems with one of your .o files.

[Pedro Pontes]

Clay,

Actually, yes. The error is being returned by the linker (ld). But I still can't identify the reason for this kind of error, or what it means.

Can you help me?

thanks!

Pedro

[Bruce Mulder]

I have seen this before when we accidentally mixed 32-bit and 64-bit libraries. Double check your library path variables and the contents of the library directories.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Do a 'file myfile.o' and let's see what that reports. Was this .o generated on this machine?