my binary doesn't do anything.

[gkffjcs]

I am a relative novice at programing but I have and can write simple things.
I've been using microsoft visual studio express on windows for a while to create simple terminal "dos-prompt" apps for my self on windows. Now I am now running Debian Linux. I have spent several hours trying to figure out how to build something in Linux I tried apt-getting a few ide's and so on. Finally i decided to try to just write code into a text file and use g++ to compile it. So to test it and just figure it out how it works I wrote a simple few lines hoping that I could at least get someting to cout into the terminal. This is what I worte:

#include<iostream>
int main(void)
{
std::cout << "this tests make";
return 0;
}

I compiled it by typing "g++ -o test tmake.cpp

this seems to have worked it didn't output any errors and after a few seconds it returned a prompt. I assume it compiled the program. but wanted to be sure so I added some errors and tried to recompile which gave me error messages. I was satisfied that my program was being compiled so I returned the program to it's original state and recompiled again with no errors. Now I have a binary file however if I try to open it noting happens. Am I doing something wrong? or is my code bad or what,? I've been searching for an answer and trying things for several hours to no avail.

[the_unforgiven]

You need to run your program as

./test

Replace test with whatever your binary name is.

The program looks ok, no problems with it whatsoever.

[Lakshmipathi]

I am a relative novice at programing but I have and can write simple things.
I've been using microsoft visual studio express on windows for a while to create simple terminal "dos-prompt" apps for my self on windows. Now I am now running Debian Linux. I have spent several hours trying to figure out how to build something in Linux I tried apt-getting a few ide's and so on. Finally i decided to try to just write code into a text file and use g++ to compile it. So to test it and just figure it out how it works I wrote a simple few lines hoping that I could at least get someting to cout into the terminal. This is what I worte:

#include<iostream>
int main(void)
{
std::cout << "this tests make";
return 0;
}

I compiled it by typing "g++ -o test tmake.cpp

this seems to have worked it didn't output any errors and after a few seconds it returned a prompt. I assume it compiled the program. but wanted to be sure so I added some errors and tried to recompile which gave me error messages. I was satisfied that my program was being compiled so I returned the program to it's original state and recompiled again with no errors. Now I have a binary file however if I try to open it noting happens. Am I doing something wrong? or is my code bad or what,? I've been searching for an answer and trying things for several hours to no avail.

why you want to open binary file instead of executing it?
binary files won't have useful info to read
try and run your binary file....for outputs

[gkffjcs]

Thank you much. That was helpful.