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Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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Building a multi-file program

In all of our single-file programs, we used the following command line to build them:

cc <sourcefile>.c -o <sourcefile> -Wall -Werror -std=c17

In the two-file program from Chapter 23Using File Input and File Output, we used the following command line to build it:

cc <sourcefile_1>.c <sourcefile_2>.c -o <programname> <additional options>

The compiler command line can take multiple source files and compile them into a single executable. In this program, we have four source files, so to compile this program, we need to put each source file on the command line, as follows:

cc card.c hand.c deck.c dealer.c -o dealer <additional options>

The order of the list of source files does not matter. The compiler will use the results of the compilation of each file and build them into a single executable named dealer.

Compile the program with the preceding command. The program should...

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Jeff Szuhay

Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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