Re: gcc (compiling a simple C program)

[Alex <ajx ourwoods org>]

What's your first error?

I don't know what's going on on your system, but your program works fine.

My test of your test:

[apj wattsx apj]$ gcc -o test test.c
[apj wattsx apj]$ ll
-rwxrwxr-x    1 apj      apj         11369 Nov  5 22:24 test
-rw-rw-r--    1 apj      apj           107 Nov  5 22:24 test.c
[apj wattsx apj]$ ./test
By Jove, it works!

Check your compiler/include file  install/path.

Usually the first error is the important one. The rest are a cascade 
effect of the first. Fix the first and the rest go away.

I studied K&R in 1983. It's a good place to start.

Alex

  
mark wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 November 2002 03:22 am, you is done writ:
>  
>
> > Just to test gcc, I tried to compile this:
> >
> > ***test.c***
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> >   printf("By Jove, it works!\n");
> >   return 0;
> > }
> > *** end file ***
> >
> > with this:
> > gcc -o test test.c
> >
> > And it didn't work.
> >
> > I got this:
> >    
> <snip *whole* buncha errors>
>
> Well, it worked fine...until, trying to reproduce your problem, I did 
> something that was *wrong*.
>
> Please go out and get a C programming book (I prefer K&R, the "bible", but 
> that's me).
>
> In any programming language, *everything* that you write is translated by the 
> compiler into machine language instructions, *except* for comments.
> Comments are *required* to be indicated in the syntactically-defined manner 
> to the compiler, otherwise, it don't know it's a comment.
>
> So, please either delete the lines with '*', or else define them to the 
> complier *as* comments, by:
> /* ***blah, blah ***** */
> ^beginning   and         ^^ end of C-style comment (note that it can continue 
> for multiple lines, until it sees the closing */
>
> or
> // ***** blah, blah *********
> ^^ C++ style comment, goes to end of line.
>
> 	mark
>
>