Thread: Having Some Trouble With Adding A Library?

Hi, I'm very new to C and I'm following on online course. I'm aware that there may have been other threads similar to this but I can't understand the solutions for those threads. I'm following the CS50 course, so I was given two files, cs50.c and cs50.h. I am aware the ".c" file is a C file, and the ".h" is a header file, but I'm not sure what to do with them. In the cs50.c file there is something that says this:

* To compile as a static library on your own system:
* % gcc -c -ggdb -std=c99 cs50.c -o cs50.o
* % ar rcs libcs50.a cs50.o
* % rm -f cs50.o
* % cp cs50.h /usr/local/include
* % cp libcs50.a /usr/local/lib

I'm confused as to where to enter in this code, if anybody could explain that to me that would be great. I'm a PC user and I code using Code::Blocks.

Thank you.

That's not done in the code, it's done at the command line.

That's what I'm confused about. Where is the command line? I know that must sound stupid but I'm very new . Thanks.

Whatever course you're following is assuming you're using Linux or Unix or a similar system. If you're not, you're likely to stay stumped.

You don't think there is any way to do it if I'm running Windows?

Here are the two files I was talking about before. First one is the C file, and the second is the Header.

https://www.cs50.net/pub/releases/cs50/cs50.c

https://www.cs50.net/pub/releases/cs50/cs50.h

Thank you so much claudiu, did exactly what you said and it worked.