Running C programs on the terminal

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.

 

screenshots please

 

Good call, I was pretty confused myself .

 

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

 

If you don't specify an output name its called a.out by default. So you use ./a.out to 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.