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a linker is a computer program which takes one or more object files generated by compiler and link them link them to standard library and produce one executable object file. The libraries includes operating system libraries, language specific libraries and ,may be, user created libraries.
Binary files are compiled programs. Libraries are external resources that one or more programs can call upon to aid them in a task.
No. Linkers combine object files and library files, which are collections of object files. All source files need to be compiled to object files.
f you have a bunch of files that contain just functions, you can turn these source files into libraries that can be used statically or dynamically by programs. This is good for program modularity, and code re-use. Write Once, Use Many.A library is basically just an archive of object files
authority files in libraries
libraries
They get deleted with the library
Windows 7
No, Linux has .so (Shared object) and .ko (Driver) files. Shared objects work in much the same way as dynamically linked libraries, except in a much better way that doesn't screw things up. There is no real Linux "DLL hell" equivalent.
libraries
Header files allow the user to make use of predefined libraries in order to save time and reuse code.
The output of both C and C++ compilers is one or more object files. The object files must then be processed by a linker in order to produce a machine code executable. Note that object files have nothing whatsoever to do with object-oriented programming. Object files contain relocatable machine code plus metadata relating to the code in order to assist with linking. The linker typically processes and combines relevant machine-code portions of the object files to produce the final executable.