Simple Hello World Program In C

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Simple Hello World Program In C
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First lets begin by opening a text editor. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 so I'll be opening gedit, If you're running Kubuntu you should have kedit, and some other distributions have emacs. Don't use a word processor, we must use a text editor!!! Now put down the following source code in the text editor.
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#include <stdio.h>

main()
{printf("Hello World!\n");}
Were gonna save it as helloworld.c (.c as the extension tells the compiler will be using that it's a C program) on our desktop.

Now open up your terminal and navigate to the desktop by putting down the following terminal command.
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cd Desktop
This will change the directory to our desktop.

We will now be using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) as our compiler for our program. GCC should automatically be installed on your distro if not put in the following terminal command to install the program.
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sudo apt-get install gcc
We will also need glibc as well, which should be already installed, and again if it's not installed put in the following terminal command to install it.
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sudo apt-get install glibc
Now that we have our compiler we need to compile our program that way it'll run. (Assuming you're still in the desktop directory on your terminal) Type in the following code in your terminal.
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gcc -o helloworld helloworld.c
Now if there's any errors in the code the compiler will automatically detect the error, but in our case we don't so in order to run our program lets put down the following terminal command, and we will now see our program.
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./helloworld
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