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In computer science, link time refers to the period of time, during the creation of a computer program, in which a linker is being applied to that program.[1][2][3] Link time occurs after compile time and before runtime (when a program is executed).
It is common to speak of link time operations (the operations performed by a linker) or link time requirements (programming language requirements that must be met by compiled source code for it to be successfully linked).