Subject: Re: GCC not working
From: Leslie Everett (leverett@tiac.net)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 15:55:36 MST
Sy Bensky <subensky@yahoo.com> wrote
> You also have to change the mode of the file.
>
> chmod +x hello
>
> Sy Bensky
Hi Sy,
I was able to make the necessary changes and I'm all set now. Next it's
about getting sound working. Thanks for replying.
Best,
- Leslie Everett
>
> --- Black <cpa@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > Under Linux (unix, etc...) in order to be able to
> > run an executable, the
> > system has to be able to know where it is. So, if
> > you just compiled and
> > got an object file called hello, the system doesn't
> > know that it is
> > something that you might actually want to run. So,
> > to run it you have two
> > options. You can call hello using and give it a path
> > so that the kernel
> > knows where to find the program. If hello is in the
> > same directory as you
> > are, you can just type ./hello and it should run.
> > The '.' resolves to the
> > current directory. If it is a program you have
> > written that you want to
> > run anywhere, you can set your PATH variable so that
> > it points to the
> > directory that contains the program you wish to run.
> > You can see where
> > your PATH points to now by typing >echo $PATH. There
> > are various ways to
> > append new directories to your PATH depending on the
> > shell you are
> > running. I don't remember what it is under bash, but
> > under tcsh it is just
> > setenv PATH <new directory>:$PATH
> >
> > I hope that helps.
> >
> > -Christopher
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Leslie Everett wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On my iMac under YDL I used GCC to create the
> > simple "Hello World!"
> > > program in C programming language. When I try to
> > run the program by
> > > typing "hello", I get this error message:
> > >
> > > bash: hello: command not found
> > >
> > > I've exhausted my limited knowledge of Linux. Any
> > suggestions on how to
> > > solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > - Leslie Everett
> > >
> >
>
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