I have gone through many tutorials on C++, I started programming with GML so I am familiar with programming to an extent, I can write a simple c++ script that outputs in cmd but I have no use for that, I don't learn anything if I can't use any of it. I have googled for what feels like forever.
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All that being said I am still at a loss for how compilers and linkers work, so I guess this is the basis of my question. I don't know what a library is so I don't know what I'm doing.
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Sorry for all the questions, like I said I am familiar with programming to an extent I just still don't understand all this linking stuff.
Please learn the basics of c++ programming.
Learn the difference between scripting and compiling/linking, learn what compiling does, what the linking stage does etc.
And if you really want to learn that with gui-programming and not with simple and understandable, but probably more or less useless, console-programs, it's up to you.
But you are definitely on the wrong site here.
We do
not teach basic programming here.
If you ask such questions, you are violating our forum rules, the rules you have accepted with registering here.
If you know what you want to do, but don't know where to do it in C::B, feel free to ask here (after reading the manual, the wiki and searching the forum).
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