The C++ Build Process - A Beginner's Guide to LLVM/Clang
Monday, April 5, 2021
Preamble If you’re a beginner and started to learn C++ very recently, read the chapters Preprocessor, Compiler, Linker, and Conclusions first. For the most part, all definitions and explanations in these chapters are compiler-independent. Come back to this document later after you moved on from writing terminal applications exclusively. The remaining chapters provide additional information by example of LLVM/Clang. See also the Appendix and Bibliography for further reading.
Introduction For many developers who have primarily worked with interpreted languages such as Python or JavaScript in the past, learning C++ may seem like a daunting task at first: There’re many moving parts between your hello_world.…more
