How do we configure gcc command in Ubuntu 5.10
I installed Gcc from syanptic manager but it must be built or something before it works . i have no previous experience on linx so plz help me how to install gcc

IF you installed it, then there is no further configuration needed. It should be ready to use, unless theres something Synaptic told you to do? IF it did, then could you please repeat that for us.

Have you tried to build something using gcc? eg using the configure, make, and make install steps?
As the man said, when you install something with Synaptic, that is usually it. Do you have docs for gcc that tell yo to do something else?

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
printf(" hi, hw r u?");
}
for compiling this program it gave the following error

sunil@pogo:~$ gcc asd.c
asd.c:1:18: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
asd.c: In function ‘main’:
asd.c:7: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf


i think we should buildit first. plz tell me how to do it??

sudo apt-get install build-essential should install the basic necessary software you need to compile a C program.


Håkan

after doing that

sunil@pogo:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.0 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.0-dev linux-kernel-headers make
Suggested packages:
debian-keyring gcc-4.0-doc lib64stdc++6 glibc-doc manpages-dev
libstdc++6-4.0-doc stl-manual
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.0 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.0-dev
linux-kernel-headers make
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8268kB of archives.
After unpacking 34.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-kernel-headers.
(Reading database ... 61390 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-kernel-headers (from .../linux-kernel-headers_2.6.11.2-0ubuntu13_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libc6-dev.
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Selecting previously deselected package g++.
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Selecting previously deselected package make.
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Selecting previously deselected package build-essential.
Unpacking build-essential (from .../build-essential_11.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linux-kernel-headers (2.6.11.2-0ubuntu13) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.3.5-1ubuntu12) ...
Setting up make (3.80-9) ...

Setting up dpkg-dev (1.13.10ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libstdc++6-4.0-dev (4.0.1-4ubuntu9) ...
Setting up g++-4.0 (4.0.1-4ubuntu9) ...
Setting up g++ (4.0.1-3) ...

Setting up build-essential (11.1) ...
sunil@pogo:~$ ls
asd.c asd.c~ Desktop
sunil@pogo:~$ gcc asd.c
asd.c:1:19: error: stdio.c: No such file or directory
asd.c: In function ‘main’:
asd.c:4: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’
sunil@pogo:~$ g++ asd.c
asd.c:1:19: error: stdio.c: No such file or directory
asd.c: In function ‘int main()’:
asd.c:4: error: ‘printf’ was not declared in this scope
sunil@pogo:~$

even now the program is not being compiled

stdio.c or stdio.h ?

it worked thank u the program is being compiled but its not running correctly
i used the directions gave in following link

http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg...c-on-unix.html

but when running it gave the following error


sunil@pogo:~$ gcc asd.c
sunil@pogo:~$ ./asd.c
./asd.c: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `"hello world"'
./asd.c: line 5: `printf("hello world");'
sunil@pogo:~$


this is the program


#include <stdio.h>
main()
{

printf("hello world");

}
when i used "gdb ./a.out"(without quotes) and ran it by using run asd.c ,it worked why is this so cant i run the program in the normal terminal mode?

You shouldn't be trying to "run" your source code file. The "gcc asd.c" line will create an executable named a.out, which you run. If you want the executable to be named something else, use gcc's -o switch:

$ gcc asd.c -oasd

This will create an executable named asd that you can run.

Thank you I got it.