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launching gcc

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how do you launch gcc in the terminal?

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) said : 		#1

Have you installed the package build-essential? Once you do that, you have to just type command 'gcc' in terminal. You can open terminal from menu Applications -> Accessories ->Terminal

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Rahim (rahimamir786-gmail) said : 		#2

it says, no input files..........

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Jensen Somers (jsomers) said : 		#3

You need to specify the input files. GCC is a command line compiler so don't expect any GUI to pop up.

gcc file_1.c file_2.c -o result

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Rahim (rahimamir786-gmail) said : 		#4

i s ther any other gui compiler, because i can not understand the one....

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Jensen Somers (jsomers) said : 		#5

You could use a tool like Anjuta or KDevelop. They are IDE's much like Visual Studio who provide a graphical wrapper around GCC.

Tools like SlickEdit (which is commercial software) also provide this features.

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#6

Personally, I think that learning the command line in this case is necessary. A rather verbose manual to GCC is available at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/

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