Compiling Process

Compile is an umbrella term for doing the following steps:

1. Preprocessing
   • Get prototypes, find and replace #include’s
2. Compiling
   • Translate to Assembly language; the closest you can get to actual binary.
   • Each CPU has its on instruction set
     • This is why you can’t take software compiled for Windows and run it on Mac
3. Assembling
   • Turning the Assembly into 0s and 1s
4. Linking
   • Stitch stdio, cs50, whatever into one file.