Basic workflow - learnclang/1-helloworld GitHub Wiki

Before diving into how to setup and configure a compiler, let's take a quick tour of how "compilation" and "linking" actually works.

Compiling Source Code

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Source: http://www.tenouk.com/Module1.html

  • Source code is written
  • File is compiled into an object
  • Object is linked into an executable
  • Executable is run

A more detailed description can be found here:

For a description of compilation versus linking, see here.

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