Compiling C programming in Debian Linux X Window?

[daiondoroga]

I would like to know how do you compile some C programming for networking in Linux Debian? I am using X Window.

Thanks.

[engineuity]

I think you need to be more specific... is it a source package you are trying to compile or is it a program you wrote? Most compiling would be done from the command line, so you can just pop open a terminal (the tv looking icon).

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

if there's a configure script in the folder, you can do ./configure to create a makefile. if there's already a makefile (or when it's created by configure) you run make. then su into root to execute make install. if neither a configure script or makefile are available (usually if it's only a few files) then you have to invoke gcc directly with gcc -o output input and any libraries you are using. either that or create your own configure script

but yeah, you should try to give more details about what you are compiling.