diff --git a/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/qemu-nographic.sh b/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/qemu-nographic.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf808dead2b6acffa698f9213eaaefbba92f7f14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/qemu-nographic.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -kernel rtthread.elf -nographic
diff --git a/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/rtconfig.py b/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/rtconfig.py
index 0bd53277f5a5b10ddd6cf86698f854174939b45f..1592f574f5b9203b8ba955df05cd93a2a7c69423 100644
--- a/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/rtconfig.py
+++ b/bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9/rtconfig.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if PLATFORM == 'gcc':
     CFLAGS = DEVICE + ' -Wall'
     AFLAGS = ' -c' + DEVICE + ' -x assembler-with-cpp -D__ASSEMBLY__'
     LINK_SCRIPT = 'link.lds'
-    LFLAGS = DEVICE + ' -Wl,--gc-sections,-Map=rtthread.map,-cref,-u,system_vectors'+\
+    LFLAGS = DEVICE + ' -nostartfiles -Wl,--gc-sections,-Map=rtthread.map,-cref,-u,system_vectors'+\
                       ' -T %s' % LINK_SCRIPT
 
     CPATH = ''
diff --git a/tools/building.py b/tools/building.py
index 79c013527b778294566ac79213b52c2cad54838a..d855aaebdcb0ebbfd449a92bffa0437c59a13a26 100644
--- a/tools/building.py
+++ b/tools/building.py
@@ -303,6 +303,11 @@ def PrepareBuilding(env, root_directory, has_libcpu=False, remove_components = [
             LINKCOMSTR = 'LINK $TARGET'
         )
 
+    # fix the linker for C++
+    if GetDepend('RT_USING_CPLUSPLUS'):
+        if env['LINK'].find('gcc') != -1:
+            env['LINK'] = env['LINK'].replace('gcc', 'g++')
+
     # we need to seperate the variant_dir for BSPs and the kernels. BSPs could
     # have their own components etc. If they point to the same folder, SCons
     # would find the wrong source code to compile.