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Old 05-18-2018
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Originally Posted by yifangt
Never tried dissection of the executable code from source code. However, this is not what I want to learn.
"What does a compiler and linker do?", and "How do executables work?" are pretty much the same question. An intimate knowledge of assembly language isn't required, though. Do you remember those old choose-your-own-adventure books? "If you say yes, go to page 37, if you say no, go to page 17", etc?

Imagine trying to write one of those. You would not write "go to page 37" in your draft - you have no idea what page 37 will be, that's your publisher's job. So you write "go to 'grisly death page'".

The publisher sets out all your pages in arbitrary order. They must make sure the beginning goes first, but otherwise the order really doesn't matter since the reader is supposed to jump around anyway. They number each page. And lastly, they change every reference to 'grisly death page' into 'page 37'.

That's exactly what a linker does, except it numbers by bytes, not pages.

If you want to add compilation to this analogy, just imagine that your publisher is Russian, and makes you send all your writing to a translator first.

Last edited by Corona688; 05-18-2018 at 01:57 PM..
 

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raptor-config(1)					      General Commands Manual						  raptor-config(1)

NAME
raptor-config - script to get information about the installed version of Raptor SYNOPSIS
raptor-config [--cflags] [--options] [--help] [--libs] [--libtool-libs] [--private-libs] [--prefix[=DIR]] [--version-decimal] [--version] DESCRIPTION
raptor-config is a tool that is used to determine the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use the Raptor RDF parser library. OPTIONS
raptor-config accepts the following options: --cflags Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a raptor program. --options Print raptor compiled options such as parsers and serializers available, the XML parser used (if any) and the WWW retrieval library used (if any). --help Print a help message summarising usage. --libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a raptor program. This excludes linker arguments used to build the raptor shared library. --libtool-libs Print the path to the libtool file for raptor. --private-libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to build the raptor shared library. This option is not usually needed because the raptor shared library has already been dynamically linked against these flags. --prefix=PREFIX If specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that raptor was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. --version Print the currently installed version of raptor on the standard output. --version-decimal Print the currently installed version of raptor as a decimal integer. SEE ALSO
libraptor(3) AUTHOR
Dave Beckett - http://www.dajobe.org/ <http://www.dajobe.org/> 2008-04-01 raptor-config(1)
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