A.out in Cygwin

I compiled my program with G++ on cygwin, and everything was OK, but then when i pressed ./a.out, i got this error:

./a.out : 23: Syntax Error: "}" unexpected

You have an open bracket or you have not used a bracket to close it, go to line 23 on your program and see whats going on there.

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Originally Posted by osal

I compiled my program with G++ on cygwin, and everything was OK, but then when i pressed ./a.out, i got this error:

./a.out : 23: Syntax Error: "}" unexpected

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On my system the default output from cygwin g++ is a.exe (It's Windows, and executables are usually named something.exe.)

If you do this:

g++ hello.cpp

You get a.exe

If you are running the Windows commend processor, cmd.exe, you just enter:

a

on the command line to run the program "a.exe".

If you are using bash as your command line interpreter, then you enter:

./a

or

./a.exe

If you do something like this:

g++ -o hello hello.cpp

The executable will be name "hello.exe". If you are running cmd.exe, just enter this on the command line:

hello

If you are running bash:

./hello

or

./hello.exe

does the trick.


Regards,

Dave

a.out (if it exists) is an intermediate file in cygwin - the actual program you run is the .exe file.