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The basis for the error is that building an EXE constitutes compiling and linking.
Compilation - Every CPP file, also called a translation unit or compilation unit, is compiled separately to form OBJ files.
Linking - All the OBJ files are linked together to become the EXE.

In your case, during compilation, every OBJ file will contain a symbol called int variable.
This means the compilation of all units are successful.

But when the linker takes all the OBJ files to create an EXE, it finds the same symbol in all translation units and so it becomes ambiguous to it as to which symbol to use.

Having said this, there are two things that you may want to do with global variables.

First
You may want to use a global variable that is shared between all translation units.
This is the answer that you've gotten so far.
The global variable declaration must happen only once so that the linker only finds one symbol for the variable and links all other extern references to that symbol.

Second
You may want to use the same name for the global variable in each translation unit.
For this to happen, declare the global variable as static - static int variable;
This forces the compilation process to not share the symbol among other translation units.

For more information refer to this link - Types of Linkage[^]
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