![]() Libraries are special archives of compiled code that can be invoked through their application programming interface, or API. Object files are binary (machine language) but cannot be executed. They must be linked into an executable. The compiler first produces an object file for each source file. In Unix these end in. Some scripts can invoke their own interpreters and run standalone, but they are not themselves binaries. When running an interpreter, the executable is the interpreter itself. Your script cannot be run directly. You cannot run a Windows binary on a Linux system, and vice versa. The result is machine language and cannot be read by (most) humans.īinaries/executables are specific to a platform, a combination of machine architecture and operating system. Is a program that executes source code, often called a script in this case, line by line.Ĭompilers go through a multi-stage process to convert source code to an executable. This is in contrast to an interpreter, which A compiler is an program that converts human-written source code directly into a standalone program called an executable (or binary).
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