<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/26fbb89c-5ba6-4718-b33e-5e3eeccefd6a/57F63618-CF79-4F6B-873B-CA11A936F066/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cprogramming.com/compilers.html" href="http://www.cprogramming.com/compilers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cprogramming.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cprogramming.com/compilers.html"><H2> What is a compiler?</H2><DIV> A compiler is necessary to make your source code (..c, .cpp, or .cc files) into a running program. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cprogramming.com/compilers.html"><H2>Compiler terminology</H2> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Compile</B> Colloquially, to convert a source code file into an executable, but strictly speaking, compilation is an intermediate step </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Link</B> The act of taking compiled code and turning it into an executable </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Build</B> A build refers to the process of creating the end executable (what is often colloquially refered to as compilation). Tools exits to help reduce the complexity of the build process--<A href="http://cprogramming.com/tutorial/makefiles.html">makefiles</A>, for instance. </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Compiler</B> Generally, compiler refers to both a compiler and a "linker" </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Linker</B> The program that generates the executable by linking </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>IDE</B> <B>I</B>ntegrated <B>D</B>evelopment <B>E</B>nvironment, a combination of a <A href="http://www.cprogramming.com/texteditors.html">text editor</A> and a compiler, such that you can compile and run your programs directly within the IDE. IDEs usually have facilities to help you quickly jump to compiler errors.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/57F63618-CF79-4F6B-873B-CA11A936F066/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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