What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.15.8 windows/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

First time I've used Go, so 1.15.8 is the only version I've used.

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

$ go env
set GO111MODULE=
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOENV=C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\go\env
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOINSECURE=
set GOMODCACHE=C:\Users\Administrator\go\pkg\mod
set GONOPROXY=
set GONOSUMDB=
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=C:\Users\Administrator\go
set GOPRIVATE=
set GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct
set GOROOT=D:\Go
set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=D:\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GCCGO=gccgo
set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=1
set GOMOD=
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -mthreads -fno-caret-diagnostics -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=N:\Temp\go-build229303370=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches

What did you do?

Using Microsoft's compiler (Visual Studio 2019 Professional) from the command line, I created a simple static-link library with a single function in two files, test.h and test.c,which contain the following lines:

test.h
int test(const char* value);

test.c

#include <stdio.h>

int test(const char *value)
{
    printf("value: %s\n", value);
    return 9;
}

I used the following command line calls to build the test.lib file:

cl /c test.c
lib test.obj

I then copied the test.h and test.lib files into the same folder as my Go code. My Go code, in a file called "ls.go", contains the following interface lines at the top:

// #cgo CFLAGS: -I${SRCDIR}
// #cgo LDFLAGS: -L${SRCDIR} -ltest
// #include <test.h>
import "C"

My Go code has no reference to the test() function contained in the static link library.

What did you expect to see?

I expected to see nothing, which is what I have typically seen with a successful compile.

What did you see instead?

When I executed the line "go build -x ls.go" I am getting the following output:

WORK=N:\Temp\go-build032909834
mkdir -p $WORK\b001\
cd M:\Projects\ls
TERM='dumb' CGO_LDFLAGS='"-g" "-O2" "-LM:/Projects/ls" "-ltest"' "D:\\Go\\pkg\\tool\\windows_amd64\\cgo.exe" -objdir "$WORK\\b001\\" -importpath command-line-arguments -- -I "$WORK\\b001\\" -g -O2 -IM:/Projects/ls "M:\\Projects\\ls\\ls.go"
# command-line-arguments

abnormal program termination

If it's of any assistance, following this, I checked the error code:

$ echo %errorlevel%
2