about linkers

[Anewguy]

If my program makes no references or call any libraries, what needs to be linked? Can I just run an object file? Why is a linker needed to turn it into an executable file? Thx :)

[blackcoder41]

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node3.html

[Anewguy]

that didn't really help but thx anyway

[DrakeMagi]

need to link all c/c++ standard libs.
like <iostream>