compiling programs in C not recognizing files

[Nickoli]

I'm new to programming, I've done a little programming in a class at school using pascal, and now I'm attempting C. Anyway my problem comes when I attempt to compile the text file. the file is saved as hello.c, the compiler is installed properly, in the command prompt I'm navigated to the right directory, but when I type gcc hello.c I get an error saying:

GCC: hello.c: No such file or directory
GCC: no input files

so, any idea what's going on?

[hETUL]

gcc - o hello.exe -Wall hello.c

Try this, this will create hello.exe file into same directory where your hello.c is.
then you can use dos to run the program.

HOPE THIS HELPS

[Nickoli]

ah quick response... sadly I'm getting the same error. anything else you can think of?

[hETUL]

Here is a link to solution, i think its easier to link then typing much of the same.
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq8_1.html


HOPE THIS HELPS

[shaticus]

What o/s are you using?
If you are running windows you could try to drag and drop your source file on to the compiler.

I think it may be a problem with your path variable. you could try typing the complete path to the file. (IE gcc c:\source\hello.c)
If gcc responds with no input files it is because it cant find the file your telling it to compile.

[Nickoli]

ahh one problem solved! windows did in fact save hello.c with the .txt extension. now, when I try to compile, I get the error "hello.c:7:2: warning: no new line at end of file" so whats happening now? lol. thanks for helping out a newb everyone

[hETUL]

I'm not saying that gcc is not good. but there is a IDE call dev-c++( its just named that but it does work with c).it is easy to use for newbie.
i use that and find it easy to use(I'm newbie too but not that new.)
http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/dev-cpp/devcpp4.zip
IF the programm you trying to write works with dev than give it a try with gcc.
The error you getting is just the warning so the programm should work.

[Nickoli]

#include

int main()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}

ok, theres the program... it did compile, so now how do i run it? when i try and open the .exe counterpart, it opens a command prompt window momentarily but nothing happens. oh my. lol. such newb questions

[mattg2k4]

You need to execute the program from the command line, because right now it opens a command line, prints it out, finishes the program, and exits the windows.

If you're already in the command line, it will print this out, but because you're already in a command line window it won't exit.

Or you can add a pause command to the end of your program, I think you need to include stdlib.h and execute system("pause");

[Nickoli]

perfect, thanks everyone for your help! my problems have been solved, now I should be able to get on to learning the language. thanks again