Is is possible to create an object file (.o) from a header file? (.h / .hpp). All the code is inlined in the header …
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Is is possible to create an object file (.o) from a header file? (.h / .hpp). All the code is inlined in the header …
Yes, just tell the compiler to compile it as a C++ file and write the result to a
.oor.objfile. But if all the functions are inline, there’s nothing for the code to do, so the resulting object file won’t have any code in it. So there’s usually no point in doing this.