Hi i am new to Mac so please help me out. I have to run a Linux shell using the terminal. My shell has been coded using C. I have gcc installed but bash refuses to recognize the command. I must run the program on the terminal only. Can someone please help me out here.
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macOS Running C programs on the terminal
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So you load Terminal.app and type gcc and then it says 'command not found'?
If so you'll need to install the Developers Tools (Xcode) which is on the Mac OS X DVD or an up to date version can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ but you'll need a free developer account to do so.
If so you'll need to install the Developers Tools (Xcode) which is on the Mac OS X DVD or an up to date version can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ but you'll need a free developer account to do so.
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So you wrote a program in "C"... did you compile it?
Sounds like you successfully started Terminal, if you have a .app,
./myApplication.app
should run it...
if you didn't compile yet,
gcc myApplication.c -o myApplication.app
then try and run it
Sounds like you successfully started Terminal, if you have a .app,
./myApplication.app
should run it...
if you didn't compile yet,
gcc myApplication.c -o myApplication.app
then try and run it
If you installed Xcode with the current Terminal session running you may just need to quit and relaunch the Terminal application for it to use the updated path information.