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How To Compile and Run C

Ubuntu 11.10 is a popular operating system for programming because it includes many open source compilers, debuggers, and IDEs like GCC, Eclipse, and Netbeans. The document provides steps to compile and run a simple C program in Ubuntu 11.10: 1) Write and save a C program using a text editor or IDE, 2) Compile the program using the gcc compiler, 3) Execute the compiled program. The steps for C++ are similar but require installing the g++ compiler and using a .cpp file extension.

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How To Compile and Run C

Ubuntu 11.10 is a popular operating system for programming because it includes many open source compilers, debuggers, and IDEs like GCC, Eclipse, and Netbeans. The document provides steps to compile and run a simple C program in Ubuntu 11.10: 1) Write and save a C program using a text editor or IDE, 2) Compile the program using the gcc compiler, 3) Execute the compiled program. The steps for C++ are similar but require installing the g++ compiler and using a .cpp file extension.

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How to Compile and Run C/C++ program on Ubuntu 11.

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Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is one of the most popular operating system for programming
because there are lot of great open source applications, tools, compilers, debuggers, IDEs
(Integrated Development Environment ) are available free of cost. Some of them are  - GCC –
The greatest compiler for C language (from FSF (‘Free Software Foundation’ by Stallman);
Linux Torwalds used GCC while developing Linux Kernel), Eclipse IDE (The most popular
‘Integrated Development Environment’ for Java programmers), Netbeans, KDevelop, Codelite
etc.

C/C++ language is a high level programming language (although the term high and low is used
in relative sense e.g C is a high level language as compared to Assembly but if we compare it
with java then C is a low level programming language; the term high or low basically describes
the closeness with hardware). Most of the operating systems has been written in C language.
This post has been written for beginners who just started learning C/C++ or the programmers
who have migrated from Windows to Ubuntu (although the commands are almost same for all
Linux based operating system).

Compiling and Executing C program in Ubuntu 11.10

1. Write and save the program


Open a simple text editor (e.g gedit), IDE (Eclipse) or command line code editor (Nano or Vim).
I’ll be using gedit as it is very simple to use and it’s recommended for beginner programmers.
Right Click on Desktop or any directory (Browse File using Nautilus) and select create new File
– hello.c (.c extension is used to indicate that it’s a c program). Then write a simple program like
this (and save the program press Ctrl+S)

#include<stdio.h>

void main()
{
printf("Hello! This is my first C program with Ubuntu 11.10\n");
/* Do something more if you want */
}

2. Compile the program

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is installed by default, in Ubuntu. To compile the program,
open the terminal and move on to the target directory type the command – (where gcc implies
compiler name, then it asks for the file name of the source program while -o option specifies
the file name of the output program)

gcc hello.c -o hello1

If there is no syntax/semantic error in you program then the compiler will successfully generate
an executable file, otherwise fix the problem in your code.

3. Execute the program

To execute the program, you need to run -

./hello1

Compiling and Executing C++ program

The steps are almost same as above but you need to install g++ compiler, the file extension
should be .cpp and in compilation phase replace gcc with g++. To install G++ compiler, execute
the command -

sudo apt-get install g++

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