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.

Note   LINK no longer takes a semicolon (or any other character) as the start of a comment in response files and order files. Semicolons are recognized only as start of comments in module-definition files (.DEF).

LINK uses the following types of input files:

• .OBJ files

• .LIB files

• .EXP files

• .DEF files

• .PDB files

• .RES files

• .EXE files

• .TXT files

• .ILK files