My first "Hello, world"

I have made my first "Hello, world", in c and py(with help), but I can't "play" them, or see if they work. I know you have to open the terminal, but what then.... :?:

I use Ubuntu. 8)

First you have to compile it and then run it.

gcc -o program program.c
chmod +x program
./program

Unfortunately there is no Gnu C compiler in Ubuntu 8). You'll have to install it.

I'm just getting into bash, maybe perl is for later :).

Through Synaptic, search for gcc and install that. Then, do what serz mentioned.

Bryan

I suggest another distro. Ubuntu isn't really meant for peope that want to program; it's meant for "regualr people". Anyone that has good experience with Unix doesn't like it.

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Originally Posted by serz

First you have to compile it and then run it.

gcc -o program program.c
chmod +x program
./program

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Is it just me or isn't the chmod +x program step uneccesary. I have never experienced that gcc does not make the output file executable automatically. (?)

I usually just:

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gcc foo.c -o foo

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I never have to chmod.

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Originally Posted by a thing

I suggest another distro. Ubuntu isn't really meant for peope that want to program; it's meant for "regualr people". Anyone that has good experience with Unix doesn't like it.

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jens uses it, and he's got pretty good experience with UNIX. If you get into Ubuntu, it's great for some people. IMO it sucks, just a half-assed debian deriative.

I've not used Ubuntu, but seeing as how gcc and make are quite installable, I fail to see how this matters at all. SuSE doesn't have them by default either, but they can be obtained.

Anywho, to sum everything up:

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apt-get install gcc
gcc -Wall -o foo foo.c      <-- "-Wall" enables warnings
./foo

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If, for some reason, this still doesn't work, then can you post the output of:

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ls -l foo.c

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Where foo.c is the name of your source file?