How to run C program on Mac OS X using Terminal?

Question

I am new to C. Here is my \"Hello,world!\" program.

#include 

int main(void)    
{
  printf(\"Hello, world!\\n\");
  return 0;
}

Answer 1

First make sure you correct your program:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
   printf("Hello, world!\n"); //printf instead of pintf
   return 0;
}

Save the file as HelloWorld.c and type in the terminal:

gcc -o HelloWorld HelloWorld.c

Afterwards just run the executable like this:

./HelloWorld

You should be seeing Hello World!

Answer 2

A "C-program" is not supposed to be run. It is meant to be compiled into an "executable" program which then can be run from your terminal. You need a compiler for that.

Oh, and the answer to your last question ("Why?") is that the file you are trying to execute doesn't have the executable rights set (which a compiler usually does automatically with the binary, which let's infer that you were trying to run the source code as a script, hence the hint at compiling.)

Answer 3

Answer is chmod 755 hello - it makes file executable... It is funny, so no-one answered it. I had same problem on MacOS, which is now solved.

nano hello.c make hello chmod 755 hello Then you run it by ./hello

clang --version Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0

nothing was installed, nano make (clang) chmod - all inside MacOS already