Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:22:18 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: c compiling using clang Message-ID: <20160426182218.96e1c8534b9df45f5bcdb709@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <822D1209-D65C-4F45-A287-A81A7E31EBE1@thehowies.com> References: <CADNZooNCtC5D4KfoL0S94vj=v%2BgqzLXsh_Ruj%2B-h0ZvpyboW%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <822D1209-D65C-4F45-A287-A81A7E31EBE1@thehowies.com>
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:56:29 +0000 John Howie <john@thehowies.com> wrote: > Hi Arnab, > > The ‘%’ is the UNIX (FreeBSD) prompt, shown in examples in text books. Do > not type it in. Depending on your shell, and whether or not you are > running as root, you might have $ or # as your prompt instead, or even > something fancier depending on how your profile is setup. > > Just type “cc filename.c” (not the quotes, they are there to highlight > what to type). This will produce a file called a.out. You run that by > typing “a.out” (again, do not type the quotes). If you want to compile > your program to a named file you would type “cc -o myfile filename.c”, > and to run the program just type “myfile”. Just one nit "./a.out" and "./myfile" the current directory is not usually in the path searched for executables. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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