[newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Marco
Hi! I am trying to create a very small application in Mandrake Linux 8.1, compiling isn't the problem at this moment, I can't start the application :-( This is the source: #include stdio.h int main(void) { printf(Hello world!\n); return 0; } then I do: gcc main.c -omain This

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 12:55, Marco escribió: Hi! I am trying to create a very small application in Mandrake Linux 8.1, compiling isn't the problem at this moment, I can't start the application :-( This is the source: #include stdio.h int main(void) { printf(Hello

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Nathan Pryor
This is a path issue. cd to the directory where the executable is and try ./main. The dot represents your current directory. HTH, -nathan On Monday 25 March 2002 09:55 am, you wrote: Hi! I am trying to create a very small application in Mandrake Linux 8.1, compiling isn't the problem at

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Michael
Further to these other two postings; there is a good reson why the current directory is not included in the PATH variable- security. There were postings about a month ago on the subject on this list. Cheers. Michael Nathan Pryor wrote: This is a path issue. cd to the directory where the

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread dfox
then I do: gcc main.c -omain One normally places the executable file before the source files, but I guess that works too :). i.e. gcc -O -o main main.c But when I start it, I get: bash: main: command not found A chmod 777 main isn't also working. Do I have (ELF???) library problems? If