doing C

[bnt]

I did a basic C / C++ course at university, and compiled some of my programs on this Ubuntu Netbook. The base compiler is called gcc, but I don't think it is installed by default, since it pulls in a bunch of other stuff too. If not, just do a "sudo apt-get install gcc" to install it.

With this code in hello.c:

Code:

/* hello.c: display a message on the screen */

#include <stdio.h>
 main()
{
 printf("hello, world\n");
}

you compile it with

Code:

gcc -o hello hello.c

and run it with command

Code:

./hello

NB: the -o parameter sets the output executable name. If you're writing C++, use g++ instead of gcc, but I generally used g++ for everything, even plain C.