Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:52:31 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mikhail Evstiounin <evstiounin@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ray D. Davis" <snoopy@mail.airmail.net> Subject: Re: How to run compiled program Message-ID: <20000115075231.O508@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <003301bf5f6b$237d0b00$d0353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net>; from evstiounin@adelphia.net on Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:11:23AM -0500 References: <003301bf5f6b$237d0b00$d0353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net>
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* Mikhail Evstiounin <evstiounin@adelphia.net> [000115 07:34] wrote: > I don't remember exatly when FreeBSD started to use new executable format, > but try to do following first: > ./ntest > > A lot of times one doesn't have the current directory in your path (it does > make sense, because it more secure) and system doesn't want > to recognize any command in the current directory. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray D. Davis <snoopy@mail.airmail.net> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 8:42 PM > Subject: How to run compiled program > > > >I am on ver 2.8. I have compiled an equivalent of hello world in both c > >and c++ using both the default a.out method and the -o option. Yet when I > >try to execute the file which is supposed to be linked, by typing > >the file name, eg. ntest, the system says ntest: not a command. Looking at > >the contents of the file it > >appears more like an object file than executable. What is the dumb thing I > >am doing??? > > The dumb thing is not telling us how you are compiling the program, you should be doing something like this: gcc hello.c -o hello ./hello -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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