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Re: Problems with Hello World.
- To: Ajoy Victor <dajoy@hoy.net>
- Subject: Re: Problems with Hello World.
- From: Geoff Appleby <geoff@topic.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:08:19 +1000
- CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <19990712034632.AAA17768@default>
Ajoy Victor wrote:
> Here is my hello world program:
>
> [~] $cat hello.c
> main () {
> printf ("Hello\n");
> }
Lovely :)
> I compile it:
>
> [~] $gcc hello.c -o hello
That would be correct :)
> I see it is there:
>
> [~] $dir
> hello.c hello.exe man.cfg sh.exe
Yes, it is.
> I try to run it:
>
> [~] $hello
> BASH.EXE: hello: command not found
>
> Some more tries:
>
> [~] $HELLO
> BASH.EXE: HELLO: command not found
> [~] $hello.exe
> BASH.EXE: hello.exe: command not found
> [~] $HELLO.exe
> BASH.EXE: HELLO.exe: command not found
>
> It doesn't work from within the terminal window but it works from
> the outside: Double clicking on it. That's problem 1.
Here's the answer for problem 1 (my guess at least). You don't have dot
in your path - try doing
$ export PATH=.:$PATH
or alternatively, run it using
$ ./hello
> Here is problem 2:
>
> [~] $ls -l
> total 194
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dajoy everyone 0 Jul 11 21:38 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 16 dajoy everyone 0 Dec 31 1969 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 3831 Jul 11 21:39 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dajoy everyone 283 Jan 30 19:16 .bash_login*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 193 Jul 10 00:45 .bashrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 869 Jan 26 11:03 .emacs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 20 Jul 11 20:02 .less
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 26 Jul 11 20:02 .lesskey
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 6926 Jan 26 11:03 .swarmArchiver
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 35 Jul 11 22:37 hello.c
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dajoy everyone 299710 Jul 11 22:37 hello.exe*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dajoy everyone 82 Jul 9 13:50 man.cfg
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dajoy everyone 68608 Dec 1 1998 sh.exe*
>
> hello.exe is HUGE. Why? What am I doing wrong?
It will be that huge (and on mine, it's 302k). It full of lovely symbols
and stuff.
try a:
$strip hello.exe
It will drop down to about 3k :)
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