Re: newbie C programming question

[Christopher Henderson <christopher acme-tech org>]

That did it - thnx!

~Christopher

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 02:38, Willem Brown wrote:
> Christopher Henderson wrote:
> > I'm trying to teach myself C and I'm having trouble compiling my first
> > program.  This is following the C Tutorial at
> > <http://www.physics.drexel.edu/courses/Comp_Phys/General/C_basics/c_tutorial.html>.
> > 
> > My first program, a simple "Hello World", is as follows
> > 
> > #include < stdio.h>
> 
> Remove the space character between the "<" and stdio and try again.
> 
> > 
> > void main()
> > {
> >     printf("\nHello World\n");
> > }
> > 
> > I go to a console and type gcc hello.c as stated in the tutorial and get 
> > the following error spit out at me -
> > 
> > hello.c:1:20:  stdio.h: No such file or directory
> > hello.c: In function `main':
> > hello.c:4: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
> > 
> > well, I did a whereis on stdio.h and its in /usr/include - any ideas on the 
> > problem?  I know this might be a bit off-topic, and btw I'm running RH 8.
> > 
> > Thnx folks,
> > ~Christopher
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Also, gcc hello.c will generate an executable called a.out. If you want
> the executable to be called "hello" you should use gcc -o hello hello.c
> instead.
> 
> To execute you would type ./hello and press the enter key.
> 
> Best Regards
> Willem Brown
> 
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