I am running Ubuntu on a virtual machine with gcc downloaded. I wrote up a code in gedit which contains:
#include <stdio.h>
/* This is a comment. */
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int distance = 100;
// this is also a comment
printf("You are %d miles away.\n", distance);
return 0;
}
When I do the make Ex1.c it says that my file is 'up to date.' so I type in ./Ex1.c and it gives me these errors:
./Ex1.c: line 3: /bin: Is a directory
./Ex1.c: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token '('
./Ex1.c: line 4: 'int main(int arc, char*argv[])'
I don't understand this, I thought it might be how I am typing the code in but then I pasted the code in from the 'Learn C the Hard Way' GitHub and I still get these errors! I just want to run my dang code!
Do it this way.
Open terminal write gedit ex1.c
In the new gedit window write the code.
Close the gedit window.
In the terminal write gcc ex1.c
In the terminal write ./a.out
You're trying to run the source code file.
You have to run the compiled binary.
The compiled binary is often called a.out.
Try doing ./a.out
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The code is given below.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
//FILE *fps;
char secret[512] =" ";
FILE *fps = fopen("/etc/comp2700/share/secret", "r");
if(fps == NULL)
{
printf("Secret file not found\n");
return 1;
}
fgets(secret, 512, fps);
printf("Secret: %s\n", secret);
fclose(fps);
return 0;
}
When I am trying to run this program it is repeatedly throwing the following error:
./attack1.c: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./attack1.c: line 4: `int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )'
You need to compile your source file with gcc as follows
gcc -o attack attack1.c
then run it with
./attack
You should read up on the difference between compiled versus interpreted languages.
There is a short video here explaining the difference.
You cannot run your C program from the command line as ./attack1.c. Normally the shell would refuse to execute the C source file because it should not have execute permission, but for some reason, on your system, it must have the x bits and is read by the default shell as a script.
Of course this fails because attack1.c contains C code, not a command file. Note that the #include lines are interpreted as comments by the shell and the error only occurs at line 4.
To run a C program, you must first compile it to produce an executable:
gcc -Wall -o attack1 attack1.c
And then run the executable if there were no compilation errors:
./attack1
You can combine these commands as
gcc -Wall -o attack1 attack1.c && ./attack1
First, you need to compile the attack.c code using the following command:
gcc attack.c
This will create one executable file a.out which you can run using the following command:
./a.out
Hope this helps you.
I'm fairly new to C and am completely new to using the command prompt and GCC to compile and run my programs. I'm struggling to find the right words to ask this question properly so please bear with me, I am doing my best.
I need to use GCC to compile and run this C program but I'm getting an error that I do not understand. In this example program, I was told to use these lines to compile and run the code:
$ gcc -Wall -std=c99 -o anagrams anagrams.c
$ ./anagrams dictionary1.txt output1.txt
So that is what I did. GCC does compile the program file, so the first line does not give me any error. But GCC does not like the second line, as shown below:
C:\Users\...\Example>gcc -Wall -std=c99 -o anagrams anagrams.c
C:\Users\...\Example>./anagrams dictionary1.txt output1.txt
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Everywhere I look, it says to use "./filename" to run the program after compiling so I don't understand why it is not working for me. Any help or advice would be really appreciated.
Also, here is the main() of the program to show why those two .txt files are needed:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
AryElement *ary;
int aryLen;
if (argc != 3) {
printf("Wrong number of arguments to program.\n");
printf("Usage: ./anagrams infile outfile\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
char *inFile = argv[1];
char *outFile = argv[2];
ary = buildAnagramArray(inFile,&aryLen);
printAnagramArray(outFile,ary,aryLen);
freeAnagramArray(ary,aryLen);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command
This is not a GCC error. The error is issued by the shell when trying to run a command.
On Windows this
./anagrams dictionary1.txt output1.txt
should be
.\anagrams dictionary1.txt output1.txt
as on Windows the path delimiter is \ as opposedto IX'ish systems where it is /.
On both systems . denotes the current directory.
The reason for the crash you mention in your comment is not obvious from the minimal sources you show. Also this is a different question.
I am working on an assignment for class, in which we have to build a simple shell interface for a Unix system in C. I am using Ubuntu and when I run the source code in that was provided using this command:
osh> cat shell.c
I get an error:
*** omake error: File /home/cameron/cs426/Project1/shell.c: line 11, characters 20-24
unexpected token: string: {
This is my first time using osh, so does anyone have any ideas as to what the issue might be?
Also, here's the code, just in case.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#define MAX_LINE 80 /* 80 chars per line, per command */
int main(void)
{
char *args[MAX_LINE/2 + 1]; /* command line (of 80) has max of 40 arguments */
int should_run = 1;
while(should_run){
printf("osh>");
fflush(stdout);
/**
* After reading user input, the steps are:
* (1) fork a child process
* (2) the child process will invoke execvp()
* (3) if command included &, parent will invoke wait()
*/
}
return 0;
}
It looks like this code was intended to be a shell. What you need to do is:
Open a terminal that runs a real shell. osh is the OMake shell, and is probably not relevant this assignment. The code you gave prints "osh", but isn't the osh.
Compile with gcc -o shell-that-calls-itself-osh shell.c The -o flag tells gcc where to put the compiled binary.
Run with ./shell-that-calls-itself-osh The ./ is to run code in the current directory.
I'm trying to cross compile net-snmp for mips64, and in order to do that I need the libperl library. I tried to configure libperl for mips64 using the following command:
./Configure -Dcc=/home/toby/x-tools/mips64-n64-linux-gnu/bin/mips64-n64-linux-gnu-gcc -Dprefix=/home/toby/perl
But I got the following error:
Checking your choice of C compiler and flags for coherency...
I've tried to compile and run the following simple program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Ok\n"); return(0); }
I used the command:
/home/toby/x-tools/mips64-n64-linux-gnu/bin/mips64-n64-linux-gnu-gcc -o try -O -I/usr/local/include try.c
./try
and I got the following output:
./try: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
The program compiled OK, but exited with status 2.
(The supplied flags or libraries might be incorrect.)
You have a problem. Shall I abort Configure [y]
How can I fix this?
I'd turn:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Ok\n"); return(0); }
Into:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Ok\n");
return(0);
}
And then run the compile command by hand to see which line really contains the syntax error.
That looks like an error from your shell and not the compiler. Particularly because gcc doesn't return "status 2" for a syntax error, but bash does. The problem happens because you have cross compiled a program called ./try for mips64. How do you expect ./Configure to execute it on your host pc? – indiv
When I run the following command in the command terminal: gcc practice.c temp.txt
I get the following error:
/usr/local/binutils/2.21/bin/ld:temp.txt: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
/usr/local/binutils/2.21/bin/ld:temp.txt:1: syntax error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Here is my C code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX_LEN 1024
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
FILE *file;
char line[MAX_LEN];
float value = 0;
file = fopen(argv[1], "r");
while (fgets(line, MAX_LEN, file) != NULL) {
sscanf(line, "%f", &value);
printf("%f\n", value);
}
fclose(file);
return 0;
}
Basically I am trying to read numbers in a file and just print them out. Very simple.
For example, temp.txt will just be something like:
10
26
27
52
242
(these numbers should be in a column)
and so forth.
You may need some explanation about what gcc really is, gcc is used to translate your code into a runnable program, it's a sort of translator for code to executable instruction for your computer.
You do not need to compile the text file, you first need to compile your program :
gcc practise.c -o your_binary_name
then launch it with your file in parameter :
./your_binary_name temp.txt
use gcc to compile the executable, and then run the executable on the input file afterwards. You get an error b/c gcc is trying to compile your test.txt as C source code.
So:
gcc practice.c -o practice
./practice test.txt
C is a compiled not an interpreted language. GCC does not run the code as say Python or other scripting languages can for example. GCC rather translates the C source code to native machine code that when linked to the target runtime to create an executable is then separately and directly loaded and executed by the operating system without support from GCC at all.