August 1999
Beginner to intermediate
912 pages
15h 44m
English
Understand how compilers work
Resolve compiler errors
Understand how linkers work
Resolve linker errors
Automate builds using make files
Find and fix buggy code
After you have written the source code for a program, you must build an executable file by compiling your source files and linking the resulting object modules with any other object modules or libraries needed by the program. Chapter 1, “Getting Started with C++,” introduces you to the compiler, and by now, you’ve undoubtedly had some hands-on experience building programs. Let’s consider the compiler. Generally speaking, compiling is the process of converting your text files (source code) into binary object ...