Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I see. So you still have to manually define what needs to be linked somehow?
> > 
> >   How else is the compiler going to know which files are your source files?
> > By reading your mind?

> Well, that's what I was puzzled by, yes. You guys seemed to be 
> suggesting that you just give VS a bunch of files and it somehow "knows" 
> how to produce a runnable executable out of them.

  Well, that is how an IDE works. You give it a bunch of source files and
it knows how to create a runnable executable out of them.

> >   That's what dynamic linking is all about. That's why they are called
> > "dynamically linked libraries". The OS performs runtime linking when the
> > program is launched: It goes through the program and sets jump addresses
> > to their proper values.

> This implies that an executable file contains some metadata in addition 
> to the executable machine code itself.

  That's correct.

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