What is the difference between build and link?

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I’ve seen some representations where the build is in the same place as when linkage, both are the same thing?

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They are not the same. A linkage is one of the steps that the build performs. The build can accomplish many things, even build the application or complete solution, some of these steps are not even part of the process of creating the executable, but certainly generate the executable is the most important.

In general you have by the two very clear steps: the compilation basic; the linkage.

But some technologies may not be quite like that, or because they’re interpreted or linkage cannot be dissociated from the compilation, even though internally they are distinct.

The term in this form is mostly used in languages that are used more directly and classically as C, C++ or Rust.

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