Executable on linux should not end in .o

[rokicki]

The Linux executable should be just "nissy" and not "nissy.o".

[sebastianotronto]

Thanks for the tip. What's the reason behind this? From what I know the extension does not really matter. I am quite new to the whole makefile business and I have just imitated that of a random program I use.

[rokicki]

The extension matters a bit; many programs assume the extension to be meaningful. The .o extension is reserved for object files (unlinked with symbols unresolved).

Executable names should generally be "bare words" on linux, with no extension.

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 12:53 AM Sebastiano Tronto @.***> wrote:

Thanks for the tip. What's the reason behind this? From what I know the extension does not really matter. I am quite new to the whole makefile business and I have just imitated that of a random program I use.

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[sebastianotronto]

Thanks for the explanation