Program Failing on My Computer

I just got a Raspberry Pi. I went to open up Geany and I wrote a simple program and I compiled it by clicking the compile program button and it compiled without any errors. I got to run it by typing program.c and I get:

./program.c line 3 syntax error near unexpected token '("
./program.c line 3: 'int main(void)'

I also try compiling it with gcc by running gcc -o program.c and I get:

gcc: no input files


Help would be greatly appreciated. I read that if you have the file/application "Joe" on the Raspberry Pi it should do C programs and mine does but it seems to be having trouble compiling my program.

You don't output the executable the same name as the C file. Of course you get the syntax error, it's trying to read the file as if it was in bash scripting language. You should be compiling like this:

Code:

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gcc program.c -o program -Wall -pedantic
./program

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That worked!!! So I need to do the -Wall -pedantic every time I want to compile?

gcc(1): GNU project C/C++ compiler - Linux man page

wow. I see a whole bunch of random words.. -_-

You have found the worst infection in the Linux mindset - they take the Gold Medal in the Verbosity Olympics, every time. Concepts like "simple", "straight forward", "what a user would expect", are entirely foreign to them, and quite abhorred.

Well done getting one of those. I know they are quite hard to get.

Haha. Thanks! I had to wait 2 months for it to come...

Thanks for the tip and your website. I will make sure a look at that. :)