Creating Runnable Programs

You can create runnable programs in two ways:

• You create an .int file, a .gnt file or callable shared object. These types of file are dynamically loadable and can be run without having to link into a system executable file.
• You can create a linked system executable file, which can be run directly from the command line.

See Packaging Applications for an introduction to executable file types.

When you run your program, you can specify:

• Switches that control the behavior
• Command-line parameters that your program can read