Table Of Contents

Resources

• LLVM Tutorial: Table of Contents
• Standford Course: Compilers
• Algorithmica - Compilation
• Linker Scripts:
  • Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Linker Script
  • GNU ld’s documentation

Build Process

• The compiler takes source code, such as .cc, and lowers it down to a .s file, an assembly file which textually describes machine code for a specific architecture
• The assembler, assembles each .s into a .o file, an object file4. An assembly file is merely a textual representation of an object file; assemblers are not particularly interesting programs.
• The linker, links all of your object files into a final executable or binary

Build System

• Software for automating compilation process
• It includes some improvements:
  • Incremental builds
  • Facilitates modular design
• The most known build system for C/C++ is Make, others like Ninja are pretty common too
• CMake is a build system generator, it generates build system files.

Memory

In a nutshell