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If you want to set up your environment for C programming language, you need the

following two software tools available on your computer, (a) Text Editor and (b) The C
Compiler.

Text Editor
This will be used to type your program. Examples of few a editors include Windows
Notepad, OS Edit command, Brief, Epsilon, EMACS, and vim or vi.
The name and version of text editors can vary on different operating systems. For
example, Notepad will be used on Windows, and vim or vi can be used on windows as
well as on Linux or UNIX.
The files you create with your editor are called the source files and they contain the
program source codes. The source files for C programs are typically named with the
extension ".c".
Before starting your programming, make sure you have one text editor in place and
you have enough experience to write a computer program, save it in a file, compile it
and finally execute it.

The C Compiler
The source code written in source file is the human readable source for your program.
It needs to be "compiled", into machine language so that your CPU can actually
execute the program as per the instructions given.
The compiler compiles the source codes into final executable programs. The most
frequently used and free available compiler is the GNU C/C++ compiler, otherwise you
can have compilers either from HP or Solaris if you have the respective operating
systems.
The following section explains how to install GNU C/C++ compiler on various OS. We
keep mentioning C/C++ together because GNU gcc compiler works for both C and C++
programming languages.

Installation on UNIX/Linux
If you are using Linux or UNIX, then check whether GCC is installed on your system
by entering the following command from the command line −
$ gcc -v
If you have GNU compiler installed on your machine, then it should print a message as
follows −
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr .......
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
If GCC is not installed, then you will have to install it yourself using the detailed
instructions available at https://gcc.gnu.org/install/
This tutorial has been written based on Linux and all the given examples have been
compiled on the Cent OS flavor of the Linux system.

Installation on Mac OS
If you use Mac OS X, the easiest way to obtain GCC is to download the Xcode
development environment from Apple's web site and follow the simple installation
instructions. Once you have Xcode setup, you will be able to use GNU compiler for
C/C++.
Xcode is currently available at developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/.

Installation on Windows
To install GCC on Windows, you need to install MinGW. To install MinGW, go to the
MinGW homepage, www.mingw.org, and follow the link to the MinGW download page.
Download the latest version of the MinGW installation program, which should be
named MinGW-<version>.exe.
While installing Min GW, at a minimum, you must install gcc-core, gcc-g++, binutils,
and the MinGW runtime, but you may wish to install more.
Add the bin subdirectory of your MinGW installation to your PATH environment
variable, so that you can specify these tools on the command line by their simple
names.
After the installation is complete, you will be able to run gcc, g++, ar, ranlib, dlltool, and
several other GNU tools from the Windows command

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