Issue with compiling a c project on Ubuntu 20.4 WSL - c

Question

I am trying to compile a project using WSL bash on Windows (it compiles using cmd, but I want to test it using a bash terminal). I have three modules and these are the libraries I include in the project:
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
The WSL still compiles a hello world program, but it could not compile my project as it gives the following error.
The error:
gcc line.o main.o textutil.o content.o -o textutil
/usr/bin/ld: line.o:line.c:(.text+0x69): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: line.o:line.c:(.text+0xb3): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: line.o:line.c:(.text+0x123): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: line.o:line.c:(.text+0x417): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: line.o:line.c:(.text+0x444): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: line.o:line.c:(.text+0x471): more undefined references to `__imp__assert' follow
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x33): undefined reference to `__mingw_vfprintf'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x25d): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x318): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x45c): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x503): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x65c): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x703): more undefined references to `__imp___acrt_iob_func' follow
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x100b): undefined reference to `___chkstk_ms'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x1079): undefined reference to `___chkstk_ms'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x1196): undefined reference to `___chkstk_ms'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x1520): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: textutil.o:textutil.c:(.text+0x15d4): undefined reference to `__imp___acrt_iob_func'
/usr/bin/ld: content.o:content.c:(.text+0xac): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: content.o:content.c:(.text+0xfa): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
/usr/bin/ld: content.o:content.c:(.text+0x16a): undefined reference to `__imp__assert'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:17: textutil] Error 1
this is the Makefile
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -std=c11 -W -Wall -Werror -pedantic -Wfatal -errors
CFLAGS += -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 # we use strdup() and strndup()
LIBS = # -lm
EXEC= textutil
HEADERS = $(wildcard *.h)
SOURCES = $(wildcard *.c)
MODULES = $(basename $(SOURCES))
OBJECTS = $(addsuffix .o , $(MODULES))
all: $(EXEC)
run: ./$(EXEC).exe
$(EXEC): $(OBJECTS)
#echo === LINKING $# ===
$(CC) $^ $(LIBS) -o $#
%.o : %.c
#echo === COMPILING $# ===
$(CC) $< $(CFLAGS) -c
depend: $(SOURCES) $(HEADERS)
#echo === COMPUTING $# ===
$(CC) -MM $(SOURCES) | tee $#
clean ::
#echo === CLEANING ===
rm -f *.o depend
-include depend
this is gcc version
gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0
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