I'm coming back to C++ programming after a number of years farting around with prolog, so apologies if this question is totally stupid. I'm using VS2008. I'm trying to write a library that wraps up ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Linking is the process of combining various pieces of code and data together to form a single executable that can be loaded in memory. Linking can be done at compile time, at load time (by loaders) ...

At first glance, both the executables that a compiler produces, and the libraries that are used during the building process seem like they’re not very accessible. They are these black boxes that make ...