Compile C file from command line - to a different path.

[ilans11il]

Hi,

I'm working on windows and I'd like to know how to compile the C file to a different path.

What I mean is :
the basic compile command is :gcc Hello.c -o Hello_E

I'd like to create the "hello_E" in a different path.
Something like this:
gcc Hello.c -o C:\Program Files\PellesC\C_programs\Exe_files\Hello_E

thanks in advanced

[Salem]

Use a makefile

Normally, you have two steps

make build
to compile the source code, and produce an executable in the build directory.

make install
to copy the executable to it's final place (along with anything else that needs doing).

Presumably, you tried
gcc Hello.c -o C:\Program Files\PellesC\C_programs\Exe_files\Hello_E
and it didn't work, in which case you should post your error messages.

Or maybe you haven't actually tried it yet....

[grumpy]

I'd like to create the "hello_E" in a different path.
Something like this:
gcc Hello.c -o C:\Program Files\PellesC\C_programs\Exe_files\Hello_E

Try turning the backslashes into forward slashes. gcc was originally designed as a compiler for unix-type systems, which separate path elements with forward slashes rather than backslashes. Windows (or, more accurately, the win32 API) treats backslashes as (largely) requirement for forward slashes in paths anyway, even though programs targeting windows rarely use them overtly.

If you're providing that string in a C program (for example, calling system("gcc Hello.c -o C:\Program Files\PellesC\C_programs\Exe_files\Hello_E")) bear in mind that backslash is an escape character in string literals. The solution there is either to (again) turn the backslashes into forward slashes, or to prefix the backslashes with another backslash (for example, system("gcc Hello.c -o C:/Program Files/PellesC/C_programs/Exe_files/Hello_E"))

Either way, gcc does not create directories for output files to go into. So if the directory C:\Program Files\PellesC\C_programs\Exe_files does not exist, creation of a file named C:\Program Files\PellesC\C_programs\Exe_files\Hello_E will fail.