could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one

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Published on 2010-05-04T12:33:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 19:18 UTC
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i tried making library with

ar -r -c -s libtestlib.a *.o

as given in this tutorial http://matrixprogramming.com/Tools/CompileLink.html

But on linking with library following error comes

g++ -o uni2asc uni2asc.o -L../Modules -ltestlib

../Modules/libtestlib.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

i tried with ranlib also but still the error comes.. im working with ubuntu9.10 Please suggest me some solution for this

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