compile

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /kəmpʌɪl/
• (America) IPA: /kəmˈpaɪl/

Verb

compile (compiles, present participle compiling; past and past participle compiled)

1. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

   Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.

2. (obsolete) To construct, build.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:

     Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].

3. (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.

   After I compile this program I'll run it and see if it works.

4. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

   There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.

   • Which these six books compile.

6. (obsolete) To write; to compose.

Translations

• French: compiler
• German: zusammenstellen
• Italian: compilare
• Portuguese: compilar
• Russian: собира́ть
• Spanish: compilar

Translations

• French: compiler
• German: kompilieren
• Italian: compilare
• Portuguese: compilar
• Russian: компили́ровать
• Spanish: compilar

Noun

compile (plural compiles)

1. (programming) An act of compiling code.
   • 2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual

     Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.

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