I am extremely new to programming and I am having problems with the basic starting program of, 'hello, world'.
I have downloaded MinGW and I believe I set it up correctly with the command promt by entering: setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\MinGW\bin"
Then I created this code following a guide while using Notepad++
#include <stdio.h> int main(void) { puts("Hello, world!"); return 0; } saving it under c:/code/c/hello.c
When I try to compile it or run it under: gcc -o hello hello.c, I get this error
gcc: error: hello.c: No such file or directory gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. And I am not sure how to fix this. I have tried looking around, but I cant find any answers or I just don't understand them.
21 Answer
gcc: error: hello.c: No such file or directory gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated.
Means that gcc is unable to find your hello.c source file. You should either cd to the source folder:
c: cd c:\code\c\ gcc -o hello.exe hello.c Or use a full path to the source in the command line:
gcc -o c:\code\c\hello.exe c:\code\c\hello.c 
