Hello World from Scratch

"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan

We’ll show how a Hello World program in C++ works from scratch, inventing the universe as we go along. We’ll demystify the journey your source code takes from textual representation to bytes executing on your processor. If you’ve ever wondered how the myriad of tools involved in translating and running C++ operate and fit together, then this talk is for you.

Topics covered will include stages of compilation, linkers, static/shared libaries, object file loading, operating system interaction, and maybe some apple pie.