Complile C program in Ubuntu

1. In the terminal, type:

   
   sudo apt-get install build-essential
   
   

2. Create a main directory called cprog and a sub directory called helloworld to hold the C programs

   
   mkdir -p cprog/helloworld
   
   

3. Go into that directory

   
   cd cprog/helloworld
   
   

4. Open a file called main.c in gedit editor

   
   gedit main.c
   
   

5. Type the following in main.c

   
   #include
   #include
   int main()
   {
   printf("\nHello World,\nWelcome to my first C program in Ubuntu Linux\n\n");
   return(0);
   }
   
   

6. Save and exit
7. To compile the program, go into the respective directory, as described in step3
8. Then type:

   
   gcc -Wall -W -Werror main.c -o helloworldC
   

9. To execute type:

   
   ./helloworldC