LINK Input Files

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You provide the linker with files that contain objects, import and standard libraries, resources, module definitions, and command input. LINK does not use file extensions to make assumptions about the contents of a file. Instead, LINK examines each input file to determine what kind of file it is.

Object files on the command line are processed in the order they appear on the command line. Libraries are searched in command line order as well, with the following caveat: Symbols that are unresolved when bringing in an object file from a library are searched for in that library first, and then the following libraries from the command line and /DEFAULTLIB (Specify Default Library) directives, and then to any libraries at the beginning of the command line.

LINK uses the following types of input files:

• .obj files

• .netmodule files

• .lib files

• .exp files

• .def files

• .pdb files

• .res files

• .exe files

• .txt files

• .ilk files

See Also

Setting Linker Options
Linker Options