Compiling and Running Your First C Program
Compiling and Running Your First C Program in this topic I ntroduces the basics of C programming in an easy-to-follow format, and includes some exercises you can try on your own to get you started how to save the source code in a file, and how to compile and run it. Open a text editor and add the above-mentioned code. Save the file as hello.c Open a command prompt and go to the directory where you have saved the file. Type gcc hello.c and press enter to compile your code. If there are no errors in your code, the command prompt will take you to the next line and would generate a.out executable file. Now, type a.out to execute your program. You will see the output "Hello World" printed on the screen. $ gcc hello.c $ ./a.out Hello, Worl...