The first step is to install the XCode developer tools that comes with OSX. You can do this by looking on your OSX install disc. There should be a folder for optional installs, and a package for XCode. This will automatically install gcc, a C compiler, on your machine. Next, find the Console in the Utilities folder. It opens a UNIX shell. Move to the directory that your c file is in (you can find more information about UNIX elsewhere if you need to). Let's say your C file is named myfile.c. To compile it, type: gcc myfile.c This will compile your program, and name the compiled program a.out. To run it, type: ./a.out I hope that helps. Brina
You can write perfectly good C programs in C++. C programs are essentially just C++ programs that make use of the C standard libraries (and other libraries written for C) rather than making use of C++ standard libraries (and other libraries written for C++). However, non-trivial C programs are better written in C++ as the resultant code will generally be smaller and much more efficient, not to mention easier to manage.
Turbo C cannot compile native Linux binaries, only programs for MS-DOS. MS-DOS applications can be run on Linux through a variety of methods, including DOSEMU, DOSBox, QEMU, Bochs, and VirtualBox.
You can compile, link and execute programs without text-editor.
The compiler demands it: your programs wouldn't compile without them.
The source files take a longer time to compile, and reading and maintaining such programs is harder.
Use Xcode. See related links below.
You can write perfectly good C programs in C++. C programs are essentially just C++ programs that make use of the C standard libraries (and other libraries written for C) rather than making use of C++ standard libraries (and other libraries written for C++). However, non-trivial C programs are better written in C++ as the resultant code will generally be smaller and much more efficient, not to mention easier to manage.
Turbo C cannot compile native Linux binaries, only programs for MS-DOS. MS-DOS applications can be run on Linux through a variety of methods, including DOSEMU, DOSBox, QEMU, Bochs, and VirtualBox.
Code, compile, link, run.
Because the source programs just do not run. Full stop.You have to1) compile them to an executable (C)2) use a program that interprets them (script languages, eg. sh, perl, php)3) mix the two: half-compile them into something that can be interpreted by another program (source -> javac.exe -> bytecode -> java.exe)
There are many C compilers. In modern usage, the most common ones are Microsoft Visual C++ (which can also compile C programs) and GCC (GNU Compiler Collecttion, originally GNU C Compiler).
You can compile, link and execute programs without text-editor.
The compiler demands it: your programs wouldn't compile without them.
You can write, compile and execute C-programs in both DOS and Unix, if that's what you meant.
The source files take a longer time to compile, and reading and maintaining such programs is harder.
C++ programs won't compile if they contain compiler errors. The compiler will tell you precisely where the error is, and the type of error, unless the error is in a macro. The compiler cannot see macro definitions because they are inline expanded prior to compilation.
Yes. There are C compilers for MS-DOS and for Xenix. Santa Cruz Operation OpenServer can compile programs to run on Xenix. See http://williambader.com/museum/dell/xenixhistory.html