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One day you may want to build a bigger project. This chapter introduces some useful tools: namespaces, conditional compilation, and the construction of libraries.
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\ means “continue on the next line.”
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Microsoft Visual Studio and g++ both have this method of helping with compile times. The idea is that instead of recompiling a .h file anew for each source file you include it in, you can reduce compile time by compiling it once. I haven’t felt the need, but with STL, header files do seem to keep growing, so…
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Briggs, W. (2019). Building Bigger Projects. In: C++ for Lazy Programmers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5187-4_24
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