gcc on windows

[rajatkochhar]

hello everybody

I have installed gcc for windows(gcc-2.95.2-crtdll.exe ).
i have set the required path and other things.
The command gcc -v is correctly giving the version and other
things.
That means gcc is installed correctly.


Now i tried to run a simple program saved in the bin folder .
file name is first.c

gcc -o first.exe first.c ..... gives
GCC.EXE :first.exe : no such file or directory
GCC.EXE : no input files

I know this is very simple but please help me out
Thanks

[Prelude]

Is your current working directory the bin folder?

[rajatkochhar]

yes my current working directory is the bin folder. Now then......

[Prelude]

>Now then......
Sorry, but I find that incredibly rude. If you don't want my help, I have better things to spend my time on. If you do want my help, you would do well to choose your words carefully when shrugging off my suggestions.

[Sirus]

I could be wrong, but I believe the syntax for the gcc command requires that you put the source file before the executable. So you specified first.exe as the input file, but of course first.exe doesn't exist yet so the command gives an error.

I could be wrong, but the symptoms match and I frankly can't think of anything else.

Edit: I just checked the man page for gcc. So much for my suggestion. Good luck.

[dwks]

It's looking for first.exe as the source file.

[^xor]

Newer GCC versions don't have that limitatation.

[dwks]

I just looked it up.

gcc -g -c first.c -o first.o
gcc -o first.exe first.o

This is how my cc.bat does it. Another option would be to edit your cc.bat file (change all '.cpp's to '.c's) and save it as ccc.bat (I did that a while ago). Or you could get RHIDE.

dwk

[rajatkochhar]

>Now then......
Sorry, but I find that incredibly rude. If you don't want my help, I have better things to spend my time on. If you do want my help, you would do well to choose your words carefully when shrugging off my suggestions.

Sorry sir , if you felt bad I didn't really mean that.

[sean]

Sorry sir , if you felt bad I didn't really mean that.

I wondered if you had meant it that way - I saw you were from New Delhi. Well to make it worse, Prelude's not really, "sir", it's more, "ma'am"