What is the difference between make and gcc?

Question

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Answer 1

make is essentially an expert system for building code. You set up rules for how things are built, and what they depend on. Make can then look at the timestamps on all your files and figure out exactly what needs to be rebuilt at any time.

gcc is the "gnu compiler collection". There are many languages it supports (C, C++, Ada, etc depending on your setup), but still it is just one tool out of many that make may use to build your system.