Programming

To find out what is installed simply type the command 'cc' on a terminal window. If it is installed, you will probably get a message which reads 'no input file.' If the package is not present, you will get something like 'optional package not installed.'

If the Compiler Collection (cc) packages are not installed, then the easier way is to install the GNU cc package (gcc). You can download it at gcc.gnu.org or one of its mirrors.

Not sure if I should have started a new trend...
I would like to start programming c in UNIX. Can somebody point me to a resource where the UNIX programming tools are explained (autoconf, automake ... ) so that my programms could be installed into system by ./configure && make && make install sequence. Thanks.

cc filename.c /* for compiling */

and


./a.out (or) a.out /* for execution */

Learn makefiles first. autoconf and automake are tools for creating makefiles, if you don't know how the output works you'll be totally lost.

Incidentally, my opinion of these tools is very low... they're slow, cumbersome, error-prone, break backwards compatibility every 5 minutes, and consume huge amounts of space for the work they do. I think you're better off writing your own makefiles.

Hello :

I compiled successfully a "c" program on AIX that works on Slackware.

However, when I tried to execute the program I get "typedef : variable not found" for all variables used in the program.

Can you eplain what I am doing wrong.

Thank you.

kgm.

Tell me what you mean by "compile" and what you mean by "execute" please. Tell me exactly what you did. It makes no sense at all to get typedef errors during execution unless you mean something different.