undefined reference to main issue

Question

I have written a c code file called \"utilfunc.c\" this code contains my functions that I will use through my code.

Now when I am compiling my \"utilfunc.c\" file an

Answer 1

Depending on the options you give the compiler (you didn't show any, so I can't say specifically about yours), the compiler/linker will try to build a whole application, in which case it would need main defined. But you can provide different options to tell it to just compile the file given, and stop there, which sounds like what you want.