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How to execute the .o file?

Asked by Subhranshu Dwivedi

Hi,

I m new to Ubuntu 8.10
and i m learning C programming
i have installed Ajunta
here i compiled >>>>

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
 printf("Enter the area of the circle\n ");
}

till here i got it successfull
i have saved this programme hello.cpp to my desktop.
after complilation i have got a hello.o generated in the desktop...

now the problem is how to execute it.

Please Suggest......

Subhranshu Dwivedi

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Simone Cianfriglia (crimer) said : 		#1

Open terminal, cd to the directory containing hello.o then:

chmod u+x hello.o
./hello.o

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Subhranshu Dwivedi (subhranshu) said : 		#2

Hi Crimer,

i just tried it, with these hit and trials but no out put......

subhranshu@Subhranshu-laptop:~$ cd /home/subhranshu/Desktop
subhranshu@Subhranshu-laptop:~/Desktop$ chmod u+x hello.o ./hello.o
subhranshu@Subhranshu-laptop:~/Desktop$ chmod u+x hello.o
subhranshu@Subhranshu-laptop:~/Desktop$ chmod u+x hello.o
subhranshu@Subhranshu-laptop:~/Desktop$ ./hello.o
bash: ./hello.o: cannot execute binary file

i hope i m doing some thing wrong
please suggest.....

regards,

Subhranshu Dwivedi

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Best Simone Cianfriglia (crimer) said : 		#3

Go to the directory containing your cpp file then:

g++ hello.cpp -o hello
chmod u+x hello
./hello

It should work...

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Subhranshu Dwivedi (subhranshu) said : 		#4

heyy thanx man its working

u are great......

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Subhranshu Dwivedi (subhranshu) said : 		#5

Thanks Crimer, that solved my question.

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Subhranshu Dwivedi (subhranshu) said : 		#6

We can get more info here about g++ and gcc compiling....
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-programming-scripting/33421-main-must-return-int.html