How does the compilation and linking process work? (Note: This is meant to be an entry to Stack Overflow's C++ FAQ. If you want to critique the idea of providing an FAQ in this form, then the post...

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I have a method that creates and returns a shader program from two given strings (vertex and fragment shader filenames). Initially, it was working perfectly, with the compilation and linking being All the problems are of the type, "undefined reference to XXX" when linking. XXX is a function from system libraries (ex: GdipFree, __imp___argc, _setjmp, __imp_GetThemeFont). I have tried reinstalling MinGW from scoop and still failed to build.

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I also tried to build using Ninja instead of Make, and failed too. CMake: Linking libraries during build? Asked 2 years, 5 months ago Modified 2 years, 5 months ago Viewed 770 times I often hear the terms 'statically linked' and 'dynamically linked', often in reference to code written in C, C++ or C#. What are they, what exactly are they talking about, and what are they linking? Linking a whole worksheet to another in Excel Asked 11 years, 8 months ago Modified 3 years, 7 months ago Viewed 65k times I have the problem with linking SFML library statically, but dynamically it works.

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What is wrong here? Here is how I fetch SFML by downloading it online. # Fetch sfml library FetchContent_Declare( ... Linking an external CSS stylesheet to HTML Asked 16 years, 3 months ago Modified 16 years, 3 months ago Viewed 909 times