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How does pnpm's node_modules structure avoid circular symlinks?
I'm reading this article explaining the node_modules structure of pnpm. https://pnpm.js.org/en/symlinked-node-modules-structure It states next to the bolded text avoid circular symlinks that ...
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Is it better to use the linker to compile multiple C++ files or better to include them as a header file
Assume we have two files a.cc #include <iostream> int timesTwo(int in); int main(){ std::cout << timesTwo(5) << std::endl; return 0; } b.cc int timesTwo(int in){ return in*2; ...
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Is it good practice to statically link libstdc++ and/or libgcc when creating distributable binaries for Linux?
Context: I have an open source project which uses JNI. While it's possible to build it yourself, I expect most users will use standard Java tools like Maven, Gradle, or SBT to download the JAR, which ...
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What does the 'emulation' do in the Linker?
I am looking into assembler and I am trying to understand the whole compilation process. During the linking step I use: ld -m elf_i386 -s -o hello hello.o Everything works fine, but I do not ...
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Creating a "lite" version of shared library on Linux/POSIX in addition to full version
I have a large shared library, a collection of functions created from numerous .a files into libeverything.so. The code for the .a files is obviously compiled with -fPIC. I also have libeverything.a ...
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How should I include libraries that I want to statically link against in my repository?
I know how to actually do the linking, but I'm not sure what the best practice is for actually getting those libraries downloaded and into my repository. Should I just straight-out include them using ...
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What are the benefits of using meta tag/JavaScript redirection over HTTP header redirection?
Upon inspecting Twitter's URL shortening service http://t.co, I noticed that, instead of redirecting to the goal URL using a Location HTTP header and a 3xx HTTP status code, it redirects using the ...
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Union wildcard sections in the linker
I'm trying to union many functions so that they will all run in the same small section of ram but be loaded from elsewhere. I have done this for several sections explicitly with a sections command ...
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Apollo-11: Using inclusion instead of a linker
Recently digitized and turned into a repo, the original Apollo 11 guidance computer source code has been made available for viewing on Github. In MAIN.agc, the repo author comments that they split ...
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Standard for implementing GUIs for command line utilities
I wrote a command-line utility and I want to develop a GUI for it. I saw that almost every tool on linux comes command-line, and it eventually has a GUI which interacts with the command line utility ...
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Should I add the source of libraries instead of linking to them?
I'm relatively new to C++, so I'm not sure how I should best handle small dependencies (e.g., a scripting language, or a JSON/YAML/XML Parser). Should I create separate projects and link them as ...
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Why use dynamic linking for less-popular libraries?
I know the difference between static and dynamic linking. I know why the notion of a library is important. And I even know why you'd want to link something like OpenGL, platform-specific APIs, or ...
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How would I organize a C project that uses libraries?
First off, I'm relatively new to C - I know the language somewhat, but never looked too much into the whole build process. From what I'm seeing, if I want to use a third party library and have it in ...
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Linking two or more different programming languages
I would like to ask how optimizer software written in C/C++ can be linked to simulator software written in FORTRAN or any other language. I have copied the section of journal article of Singh and ...
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Can I distribute a GPL executable (not a library) in a closed-source application? [duplicate]
I want to write a closed-source desktop application that uses a piece of GPL software in the background. I know that I can't link to a GPL library (libgit.a). But if I embed a GPL application (git....
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