On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Bumpurs, C. Shane wrote:
> compiled it via gcc or ecgs and it makes an a.out
> I can rename a.out to whatever I want.
> But when I try to run the thing in the shell it says it can't find it.
> if I use xfm it displays the output in the shell that I run xfm from.
> I'm used to DOS so what am I doing wrong?
>
Assuming you renamed a.out to prog1 you would type
./prog1
This causes the shell to look in the current directory for a executable
called prog1. By default my systems are not set up to execute a program
in the current directory. Also the -o <executable name> option in gcc
will name your executable correctly instead of defaulting to a.out.
i.e.
gcc code.c -o myprogram
This will produce an executable called myprogram created from the code.c
source file.
Hope by ramblings help.
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