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.
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.
Dynamic linking refers to linking while runtime where library files are brought to primary memory and linked .. (Irrespective of Function call these are linked).
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)
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 ?
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?
I often hear the terms 'statically linked' and 'dynamically linked', often in reference to code written in C, C++ or C#. What are they, what exactly are they talking about, and what are they linking?
