I recently had to reformat my computer and when I reinstalled Cygwin and tried compiling through gcc I get an error that there is no input files and no such file or directory.
I created a folder called home and then the user name in that and put the source files there, but I still get the same error.
Any help?
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Is the error that the compiler can't be found? That is, if you just type "gcc" on the command line, does it work or not? [It will say somethign like "nothing to compile" if it works. ]
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if i type just gcc, it says gcc: no input files
So what do you type when it fails, and what is the EXACT error message (use copy from the command window and paste it into your post here).
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I'd assume you're not giving gcc any files to work with (ie no arguments), paste exactly what the terminal says (and what you type) here -- as matsp said.
If i type just "gcc" it says:
$gcc
gcc: no input files
If i type gcc -Wall -o hw3 hw3.c it says:
$gcc -Wall -o hw3 hw3.c
gcc: hw3.c: No such file or directory
gcc: no input files
And there definitely is a hw3.c file in your current directory?
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Show your 'ls' result as well.
Or otherwise show that there really is a file with that name.
If you type
ls hw3.c
does that also produce an error message?
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That's kind of the problem, I don't know what or where my current directory is, before I had reformatted my computer, when I had installed cygwin, there was a folder automatically created called "home" and inside that folder there was another folder called "Owner"
And now when I reinstalled it, no such folder was created. So i manually created it, and put the files in there, infact I pasted the hw3.c file in quite a few places.
If i type ls hw3.c
it says:
ls: cannot access hw3.c: No such file or directory
The files that you specify to gcc 'hw3.c' is relative to the current working directory.
For example, if you had, /home/jfonseka/mysource which contained 'hw3.c'
You'd do something like,
Since now the folder which contains hw3.c is the current working directory.Code:> cd /home/jfonseka/mysource > gcc -Wall -o hw3 hw3.c
Won'd do anything because you haven't told it to, it expects input files (you've speicifed none) -- I suggest doing a man gcc.Code:$gcc
[edit] Ahh poo, really late[/edit]
If you have no idea where hw3.c is, search for it
Code:> find / -name hw3.c
Ah ha, now it worked, i didn't know i had to change directory like that, thanks!Originally Posted by zacs7
