(overview_root_compilation)=
# Standard compilation

For C++ enthusiasts, it is possible to use {{root}} (and subsequently {{uranie}}) as a set of 
libraries, and to compile an executable. In this case, you have to take care of linked libraries. In 
order to help the user, {{root}} provides a macro that give many of the needed flag to perform the 
compilation, both to give the path to the headers and the path to the libraries.

```bash
g++ -o OutputName TheFileName.C  `root-config --cflags --libs`
```

For this example:

- OutputName: the name of the resulting executable

- TheFileName.C: the C++ file containing the code

- `root-config --cflags --libs`: this command provides all the necessary flags to compile most of the macros using {{root}}.

This is a logic we acknowledge and try to follow as well for {{uranie}}: if one wants to compile an 
{{uranie}} macro, one can use two flags.

- URANIECPPFLAG: it defines all the include path needed and add on top the ones from {{root}};

- URANIELDFLAG: it defines the linking option and path to library and add on top the ones from {{root}};

With this, an example of standalone compilation for a given macro `UranieMacro.C` will be: 

```bash
g++ -o OutputExecutable UranieMacro.C  `echo ${URANIECPPFLAG} ${URANIELDFLAG}`
```