Art Lemasters wrote: > I've never written C for any UNIX but want very >much to learn. Getting started might be the most >difficult part. The following question appears to me >to be a somewhat Debian-Linux-specific (although I could >be wrong). > > How do I compile and link hello.c? ...can't >seem to find stdio.h for linking. Hopefully, the >answer to that will get me started. Thanks. Source file helloc.c should look something like this:
======= #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("Hello world\n"); } ======= compile it with gcc -o hello hello.c If you get errors, you probably haven't installed all the packages you need: gcc, cpp, binutils, libc6-dev (this assumes Debian 2.0; use libc5 if you're still on bo) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." Philippians 2:4 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null