Can one of you geniuses out there help me please.
They say that compiling and running hello world is the hardest bit. They're right.
I've got debian on my laptop.
I read a so-called tutorial that reccomended
gcc hw.c
OK. So I get a file called a.out. Allegedly an executable.
Now how do I run it? I type a.out at the command line and get
bash: a.out: command not found
ls tells me that a.out does exist.
gui tells me that it has execute permission for owner, group and others
Any ideas.
That's because commands in the cwd are not in the PATH by default on Linux/Unix.
Type ./a.out Enjoy!
Thanks Duoas,
Your solution hit the spot.
DCL.
you should use gcc -o filename filename.c
this will produce a exe thats called filename instead of a.out
That's not really necessary if you are compiling something for you own use.
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