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Re: How Does Compiling Work?

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Originally Posted by mikets View Post
Don't know the details of the cRIO platform and the Wind River cross compiler but if it were the Windows platform which I know very well, the compiler compiles the source code into machine code for the target platform. If the code calls some sort of library, then the generated code needs to link to the library code.
There's always a linking step. It may be handled seamlessly so you don't see it.

http://www.cprogramming.com/compilingandlinking.html



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