[SOLVED] cc and gcc compilers don't work

[braden87]

Hello everyone,

I've tried instralling the c and c++ compilers on my fedora 13 machine and none of them seem to work. For example. i have this extremely simple c program that i try to compile and nothing works.

#include "stdio.h"

printf("Hello World");

when i type

[####localhost Desktop]# cc hello.c

i get this error

hello.c:3: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before string constant
hello.c:3: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
hello.c:3: error: conflicting types for ‘printf’
hello.c:3: note: a parameter list with an ellipsis can’t match an empty parameter name list declaration

i've tried intalling a group of developers tools using

yum groupinstall "Developers Tools"

and nothing......

Any ideas?

[rcgreen]

try

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}

[braden87]

Huh......so it was just a programming syntax error.....but what does all that error garbage that it spat out mean?

[rcgreen]

That's the compiler giving the technical description
of the errors. It's hard to figure out.