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{{Short description|Computer program which combines multiple object files into a single file}}

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[[File:Linker.svg|thumb|An illustration of the linking process. Object files and [[static library|static libraries]] are assembled into a new library or executable]]

In [[computing]], a '''linker''' or '''link editor''' is a computer [[System software|system program]] that takes one or more [[object file]]s (generated by a [[compiler]] or an [[assembler (computing)|assembler]]) and combines them into a single [[executable]] file, [[library (computing)|library]] file, or another "object" file.

A simpler version that writes its [[Input/output|output]] directly to [[Computer memory|memory]] is called the ''loader'', though [[loader (computing)|loading]] is typically considered a separate process.<ref name="IBM_1972"/><ref name="Barron_1978_Consolidator"/>

== Overview ==