Silly Compiling Question

[Nailz]

**NOTE** I'm not a programmer, nor do I play one on TV.

BUT, if given a program...call it file.c, how do I compile it to make a binary out of it?

Assuming there are no other dependencies (other files)...



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[YaRness]

i'd try just "gcc file.c" and see what happens. i think with no arguments that creats an executable called "a.out". i could be wrong though.

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[Muzzafarath]

Well, it kinda depends on what compiler you want to use... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif Using gcc:

gcc file.c -o file

You can then start it by running ./file...

[Strike]

Actually, here's a neat trick most systems support. If you are just compiling a simple little one-file program like that, you can just type make file.c and it will do a cc file.c -o file for you. I always thought that was handy and short.