In this article, you will learn exactly that. Whether you are designing a C++ application, implementing new features for it, trying to address bugs (especially certain strange bugs), or trying to make C and C++ code work together, knowing how compilation and linking works will save you a lot of time and make those tasks much more pleasant. Why is C++ source code split into header and source files? How is each part seen by the compiler? How does that affect compilation and linking? There are many more questions like these that you may have thought about but have come to accept as convention. Compilation and linking are two very basic processes that happen all the time during C++ software development, but oddly enough, they aren’t well understood by many C++ developers.
That chapter, in 2.2, mentions in half a page the compilation and linking process in C++. Bjarne Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language has a chapter titled “A Tour of C++: The Basics”-Standard C++.
