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I have been a Gentoo Linux aficionado for decades. When you set it up you define a set of CFLAGs and CXXFLAGS etc. Those are your globals, your defaults. I a

I have been a Gentoo Linux aficionado for decades. When you set it up you define a set of CFLAGs and CXXFLAGS etc. Those are your globals, your defaults. I am also a human. When I deal with another person I have never met before, I have a set of defaults. I override them as required. gcc (at least) only requires an input and will behave reasonably and generate: a.out. You might like to pass -O2 for something a bit more complicated. Beyond that then yes you will need to get into details because any engineering discipline is tricksy!

xigoi 2y ago
> Beyond that then yes you will need to get into details because any engineering discipline is tricksy! When you have multiple files in your project or are using external libraries, pretty much any other programming language will know what tt do. Only C requires you to manually name them in the compilation command even though they’re already named in the file you’re compiling.