Compiling A C Program

• Lets assume there is a file named http://siber.cankaya.edu.tr/OperatingSystems/cfiles/code1.c code1.c that we want to compile. We will do so using a command line similar to this:
  $gcc code1.c
• Note that we assume the compiler is called "gcc" (if you're using a GNU compiler). If you're using a Solaris system, you might use "acc", and so on.
• Every compiler might show its messages (errors, warnings, etc.) differently, but in all cases, you'll get a file "a.out" as a result, if the compilation completed successfully.
• You might complain that "a.out" is a too generic name (where does it come from anyway? That's a historical name, due to the usage of something called "a.out format" for programs compiled on older Unix systems).
• Suppose that you want the resulting program to be called "code1". In that case, you could use the following line to compile it:
  $gcc code1.c -o code1