The compiler will look exactly where you tell it. I'm assuming you have a cmd window, so see a prompt like:-
c:\users\jason> If you save your source file on the desktop, you need to "cd" into the desktop folder. eg: c:\users\jason> cd Desktop c:\users\jason\Desktop> Then you can invoke the compiler and tell it to find your source, eg: c:\users\jason\Desktop> gmcs hello.cs /out:hello.exe If I were you, I'd download Xamarin studio and use that if you want to avoid lots of fun with cmd windows. Ian On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Jason_G wrote: > This is probably a sill problem but I cannot seem to fix it, I am following > the Mono-Basic tutorial and trying to use the console to say "hello world". > I'm using windows and have created a file called hello.cs with all the > required code. But when I open up the console and type gmcs hello.cs I get > the following error. > > "error CS2001: Source file 'hello.cs' could not be found Compilation failed: > 1 error(s), 0 warnings" > > I have currently saved the file to my desktop, is there somewhere else I > should save it? or am I doing something wrong? Like I said this is probably > a silly problem, but I am very new to this and would really appreciate some > help. > > Thank you. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Console-won-t-locate-Hello-cs-tp4659563.html > Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
