I just started learning and working with "Android Studio" software and editing a project. It took too long to figure out how to work with that. I just fixed many errors and now i know many
How does the compilation and linking process work? (Note: This is meant to be an entry to Stack Overflow's C++ FAQ. If you want to critique the idea of providing an FAQ in this form, then the post...
There are really three possibilities: static linking, load-time dynamic linking, and run-time dynamic linking. The other question is asking about the difference between the second and third, while this is talking about the difference between the first and a group of the second and third taken together.
Dynamic linking refers to linking while runtime where library files are brought to primary memory and linked .. (Irrespective of Function call these are linked).
Static linking vs Dynamic linking Static linking is a process at compile time when a linked content is copied into the primary binary and becomes a single binary.
How does C++ linking work in practice? What I am looking for is a detailed explanation about how the linking happens, and not what commands do the linking. There's already a similar question about
As I understand, gcc performs compiling, assembling then linking. The latter two steps are achieved by it running as and ld. I can generate the assembly code by using gcc -S test.c. What would you type into a terminal, to convert the assembly code into an executable? (the reason for doing so is to learn assembly)
4) Linking: This is where I'm confused. At this point you have an executable. But if you actually run that executable what happens? Is the problem that you may have included *.h files, and those only contain function prototypes? So if you actually call one of the functions from those files, it won't have a definition and your program will crash?
The question is then "What good is an import library to me if I don't need it when linking ?" .lib is the extension used for static library on Windows, and according to wikipedia, is also used as "import library" under windows, so I strongly suspect they're just another name for what the binutils call .a files. True/false ?
