Compiling and Running Your First C Program
Compiling and Running Your First C Program
in this topic Introduces 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, World!
e gcc compiler is in your path and that you are running it in the directory containing the source file hello.c.
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