Linking

This topic describes the options that allow you to control and customize the linking with tools and libraries and define the output of the linking process.

Option	Description
-Ldirectory	Instruct linker to search directory for libraries.
-lm	Link with math library.
-Qoption,tool,list	Passes an argument list to another program in the compilation sequence, such as the assembler or linker.

Suppressing Linking

Use the -c option to suppress linking. For example, entering the following command produces the object files file.o and file2.o:

IA-32 systems: prompt>icc -c file.cpp file2.cpp
Itanium(TM)-based systems: prompt>ecc -c file.cpp file2.cpp

Note

The preceding command does not link these files to produce an executable file.