- 1). Open a command-prompt window. In Windows, you can access the command prompt by opening the Start menu and clicking on “Run.” Type in “cmd” and press the “Enter” key to launch the command prompt. On Linux systems, the command-prompt window can be found in the Applications menu inside the “Accessories” folder; it is called “Terminal.” On Mac OSX systems, you can find the command-prompt window within the “Utilities” folder. It is also called “Terminal.”
- 2). Navigate to the folder where your C++ source code is located. All systems use the same command for changing directories: cd. For example, to change the directory to “UserName/MySourceCode/Project01,” you can type this command into the command-prompt window:
cd UserName/MySourceCode/Project01/ - 3). Type in the compile command to build your source-code file. By adding the “-s” command line switch, you can hide the symbols by removing the symbol table. For example, to compile the source code file “MyCode.cpp” into a program named “MyProgram,” you can type in the following:
g++ –s MyCode.cpp –o MyProgram - 4). Press the “Enter” key to compile the program. The GNU compiler compiles the source code into the executable file “MyProgram” and removes the symbol table, thus hiding your symbols.
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