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C - Environment Setup: Try It Option Online

This document discusses setting up a C programming environment both online and locally. It provides an online C compiler that allows editing, compiling, and running code directly in the browser without installing anything. For a local setup, it recommends a text editor like Notepad and installing a C compiler like GCC. It then describes how to install GCC on different operating systems like Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

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C - Environment Setup: Try It Option Online

This document discusses setting up a C programming environment both online and locally. It provides an online C compiler that allows editing, compiling, and running code directly in the browser without installing anything. For a local setup, it recommends a text editor like Notepad and installing a C compiler like GCC. It then describes how to install GCC on different operating systems like Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

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C - ENVIRONMENT SETUP

Try it Option Online


You really do not need to set up your own environment to start learning C programming
language. Reason is very simple, we already have set up C Programming environment online,
so that you can compile and execute all the available examples online at the same time when
you are doing your theory work. This gives you confidence in what you are reading and to
check the result with different options. Feel free to modify any example and execute it online.
Try following example using Try it option available at the top right corner of the below
sample code box:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
/* my first program in C */
printf("Hello, World! \n");

return 0;
}
For most of the examples given in this tutorial, you will find Try it option, so just make use of
it and enjoy your learning.
Local Environment Setup
If you are still willing to set up your environment for C programming language, you need the following two
softwares available on your computer, (a) Text Editor and (b) The C Compiler.
Text Editor
This will be used to type your program. Examples of few editors include Windows Notepad, OS Edit command,
Brief, Epsilon, EMACS, and vim or vi.
Name and version of text editor can vary on different operating systems. For example, Notepad will be used on
Windows, and vim or vi can be used on windows as well as Linux or UNIX.
The files you create with your editor are called source files and contain program source code. The source files
for C programs are typically named with the extension ".c".
Before starting your programming, make sure you have one text editor in place and you have enough
experience to write a computer program, save it in a file, compile it and finally execute it.
The C Compiler
The source code written in source file is the human readable source for your program. It needs to be
"compiled", to turn into machine language so that your CPU can actually execute the program as per instructions
given.
This C programming language compiler will be used to compile your source code into final executable program.
I assume you have basic knowledge about a programming language compiler.
Most frequently used and free available compiler is GNU C/C++ compiler, otherwise you can have compilers
either from HP or Solaris if you have respective Operating Systems.
Following section guides you on how to install GNU C/C++ compiler on various OS. I'm mentioning C/C++
together because GNU gcc compiler works for both C and C++ programming languages.
Installation on UNIX/Linux
If you are using Linux or UNIX, then check whether GCC is installed on your system by entering the following
command from the command line:
$ gcc -v
If you have GNU compiler installed on your machine, then it should print a message something as follows:
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr .......
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
If GCC is not installed, then you will have to install it yourself using the detailed instructions available at
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/
This tutorial has been written based on Linux and all the given examples have been compiled on Cent OS flavor of
Linux system.
Installation on Mac OS
If you use Mac OS X, the easiest way to obtain GCC is to download the Xcode development environment from
Apple's web site and follow the simple installation instructions. Once you have Xcode setup, you will be able to
use GNU compiler for C/C++.
Xcode is currently available at developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/.
Installation on Windows
To install GCC at Windows you need to install MinGW. To install MinGW, go to the MinGW homepage,
www.mingw.org, and follow the link to the MinGW download page. Download the latest version of the MinGW
installation program, which should be named MinGW-<version>.exe.
While installing MinWG, at a minimum, you must install gcc-core, gcc-g++, binutils, and the MinGW runtime, but
you may wish to install more.
Add the bin subdirectory of your MinGW installation to your PATH environment variable, so that you can specify
these tools on the command line by their simple names.
When the installation is complete, you will be able to run gcc, g++, ar, ranlib, dlltool, and several other GNU tools
from the Windows command line.

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