[W/K] :: linker

  linker
       
           (linkage editor, link loader) A program
          that combines one or more files containing object code from
          separately compiled program modules into a single file
          containing loadable or executable code
       
          This process involves resolving references between the
          modules and fixing the relocation information used by the
          operating system kernel when loading the file into memory to
          run it.
       
          Under Unix, the linker is called "ld" and object files
          have filename extension .o (object), .so (shared object), or
          .lib ({library), and the resulting executable is called
          "a.out" by default.
       
          (2001-10-13)