UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all,

First time here and with linux/*nix like OS's.

What I'm trying to do is have a development environment in unix with GCC, GDB, and some editor like Vim/emacs/nano/etc....

I have Openbsd loaded on a virtual machine in VMware workstation. Boots fine and all seems good. I have the current package release for GCC, GDB, VIM, EMACS, and NANO. After a reboot, I decide to test things by writing a simple 'Hello, World" program, compile it and try to execute it by either a.out or whatever name I gave it using gcc -o hello1 hello1.c. The error I recieve is command not found or a.out/hello1 not found. What else do I need to execute a C program in some *nix like system?

I have the following installed:
autoconf, automake, bash, emaxs, g++, gcc, gdbm, glib, glib2, gmake, libtool, m4, metauto, nano, vim, zsh, and all required dependencies.

All were added by pkg_add -r command.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tuck

I take it

Code:

a.out

fails. Is that what you mean?

Code:

gcc -o somefile somefile.c
./somefile

You have to reference executables in the current directory with ./<filename>

right on!

thanks that worked.

tuck