Undefined symbol "Stat@FBSD_1.5" about shc HOT 3 CLOSED

I'm not intimately familiar with shc (or FreeBSD, lol) but I assume it stats itself, its directory, or some character device like /dev/null

Missing a system call name is kind of interesting though, I guess it's likely that shc compiled a call to libc's stat wrapper for the FBSD system call and that name was resolved differently, at a different offset, in a different shared library, etc etc by the ELF interpreter on the minimal system

(that capital letter in Stat is kind of interesting, i hope that's an artifact and not a problem)

if you have a C compiler on the target system, can you compile and run a small program like this? (it works on Linux, hopefully on FreeBSD)

#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <errno.h> 
#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char** argv) {
  struct stat s;
  if (stat(argv[0], &s)) { 
    perror("stat #1");
    return 1;
  }
  if (syscall(SYS_stat, argv[0], &s)) { 
    perror("stat #2");
    return 1;
  }
}

if it compiles and runs and file ./stat says dynamically linked then the problem is a version or address mismatch for the symbol and / or library that loads the stat symbol between your two systems, and you might have to force static linking when shc compiles.

(if it attempted to actually compile a call to a symbol named stat@FBSD_15 or something, then it really is a version mismatch)

from shc.

Can you test with the last version with the flag 'H'
Also compile your bash without any additional flag and try again
Also with the same unprotected binary, can you run strace your-binary and report back

from shc.

Yes, this was a user error on my part. Once I ran with -r this issue disappeared.

from shc.