to recompile
- verb
- /ˌriːˈkɒmpaɪl/
- Specialized
- Recompiling also allows applications to benefit from the new instructions.
So if anyone happened to update GCC, then they would recompile GCC using GCC.
- So if anyone happened to update GCC, then they would recompile GCC using GCC.
- You don't have to keep on recompiling your stuff.
- If you want to use no Guild Python, you have to recompile Python from source for your platform using your tool set.
- So you could install them on the Pine book, but you'd have to recompile the kernel first and it frankly would not be a good experience at all.
Examples
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Native code in the browser may require web apps to be recompiled for the new chips.
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Start 15 minutes late so Avie can recompile and give us a fighting chance.
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We can recompile, but if it's a hardware problem, we can't get into the back.
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Correct, some channels have to be recompiled for new architecture.
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The tracking software needs to be recompiled.
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New functions and features are added in an upwardly compatible way so that customers need not modify or even recompile their programs to maintain existing functionality.
Academic text (2000) -
You can take a program written in ANSI C and recompile it with a different compiler on a different platform, and have it compile and run with little or no change to it.
Blog text (25) -
After making changes to the code, I had to recompile the program for it to work correctly.
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To implement the new features, you must first recompile the software from the updated source code.
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When fixing bugs, developers often recompile their applications to test the changes immediately.
Synonyms
To change a program written by a person into code a computer can run
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Etymology
Recompile comes from re- 'again' and compile 'to put together', and in computing compile means to turn source code into a program, so to recompile is to build the program again after you change the code.