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A tutorial for low-level C++ linkage, meant for people with 0 C++ knowledge

Linking tutorial

A step-by-step tutorial for low-level C++ linkage on Linux, meant for people with 0 C++ / low level knowledge.

Make sure you have a C++ compiler installed. On Ubuntu, you need to sudo apt-get install build-essential You also need Python>=3.8. Should be fine on any recent Ubuntu.

Run ./runme.py.

At every step, the script will print the shell command used and explain what it's doing / why.

It will:

• generate a file containing binary data
• visualize its contents
• build a cpp file
• embed the data in the executable
• disassemble the executable
• show where the data is
• verify that everything is correct ☺

linking_tutorial's Issues

Should be apt-get install build-essential

Typo in the instructions, should be:

apt-get install build-essential