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Compiling your program file
Quick reference
To compile a Quantum program, type:
quantum –c [program_file]
More information
The first step in any Quantum run is to check the syntax of your Quantum specification and to convert it into C code. This is called compilation.
The compilation creates many files, the most important of which are:
out1
The program file listing made as the program is checked. If errors are found, Quantum marks them in this file.
colmap
A listing of all the columns and codes referred to by all non-ignored axes.
For more information on the contents of these files, see Files created by Quantum.
See also
Running Quantum on UNIX and Microsoft Windows