"Hello, World!" compiling problems
 

I have compiled a "hello, world" program before in Linux. I cant remember the command line and now i am having problems, i'm using slackware 10.1 and knoppix 3.8 and in both when i try am compile:

/* ------ hello.C ------- */
#include<stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf("Hello, world!\n\n");
return 0;
}
/* ------- End --------- */

under the command:
gcc hello.C -o hello

i get the following error
/tmp/ccAp71uc.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to'__gxx_personality_v0'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any suggestions?
Thank you, BurningBreeze.

The problem is the uppercase C in the file extension.

gcc automatically assumes that .C, .cpp, .cxx, .cc, ect. are C++ files. If you attempt to compile a C++ file using gcc without linking to -lstdc++ it will not work.

Either of these will work
gcc -lstdc++ -o test test.C
g++ -o test test.C
or rename test.C to test.c and use
gcc -o test test.c

Also, in the future please use the code blocks.

try running it with a lowercase 'c'. I think that gcc automatically interprets the *.C as c plus plus, and your c++ libs might be broken (it happens). But if "gcc hello.c" fails, then your compiler is broken.

No errors came up after i renamed the file. but when i type 'hello' at the Konsole it doesen't run. so i typed 'gdb hello' and then in gdb 'run' and it ran. why wont the Konsole run it?

Try ". hello" or "./hello". Most likely the current directory just isn't in your system path.

'./hello' worked! thanks dude! I obviously worked with a different distro when i was previously compiling in linux.