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Compiling Separately

There are no standards for compiler or linker command names. The following commands compile the modules and link them together using a fictional compiler (cppcompiler) and linker (cpplinker) under Windows:

|compiling|commands

|commands|compile

cppcompiler PromptModule.cpp
cppcompiler ErrorHandlingModule.cpp
cppcompiler Main.cpp
cpplinker Calculator.exe Main.obj PromptModule.obj ErrorHandlingModule.obj

A compiler typically produces an intermediate file, whose name often ends in .obj or .o (it is sometimes called an object file even though it has nothing to do with object-oriented programming). The linker combines these files into an executable file (under Windows a .exe file, under Unix a file with no extension). The operating ...