Thread: compile question

hi, i have just started to learn c, here is my problem (its not really a problem) when i write my code in gedit save the file as hello.c for instance i then go to terminal and type cc hello.c this works but i get a_out (again not an issue) so i type cc -o hello hello.c now i get the desired hello executable so my question is this,

can i add an alias to my terminal session to make cc hello.c preform the same as cc -o hello hello.c ?

If you create Makefile in the same directory,

Code:

CC      := gcc
CFLAGS  := -W -Wall -O2
LD      := $(CC)
LDFLAGS :=
PROGS   := hello

.PHONY: all clean run

all: clean run

clean:
	rm -f $(PROGS)

%: %.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(LDFLAGS) -o $@

run: hello
	@echo
	@echo Running ./hello:
	@echo
	@./hello

you only need to type make to compile and run your program. Just note that when you create the above file, the indentation must be a TAB character, not spaces.