Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:29:54 +0000 From: John Howie <john@thehowies.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: c compiling using clang Message-ID: <B1168892-38B5-423D-A9BD-251DEB5B4862@thehowies.com> In-Reply-To: <20160426182218.96e1c8534b9df45f5bcdb709@sohara.org> References: <CADNZooNCtC5D4KfoL0S94vj=v%2BgqzLXsh_Ruj%2B-h0ZvpyboW%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <822D1209-D65C-4F45-A287-A81A7E31EBE1@thehowies.com> <20160426182218.96e1c8534b9df45f5bcdb709@sohara.org>
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Good point, Steve! On 4/27/16, 1:22 AM, "owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org on behalf of Steve O'Hara-Smith" <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org on behalf of steve@sohara.org> wrote: >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> > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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