Linux Compile Multiple C++ Files

Compile Two Files:

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$ CC -c Main.cc Sales_item.cc           # by default generates a.exe                                         # some compilers generate a.out   # puts the executable in main.exe $ CC -c main.cc Sales_item.cc -o main

 

More efficient way is to only compile the modified file. Thus we need to compile original files into object files.

 

Link Object Files:

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$ CC -c main.cc                     # generates main.o $ CC -c Sales_item.cc               # generates Sales_item.o $ CC main.o Sales_item.o -o main    # by default generates a.exe;                                     # some compilers generate a.out