Re: Newbie - Can't compile and run C program

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 18.3.2012 um 22:11 schrieb taariqq:

> When I do
> M-x compile RET hello.c RET
> the window that opens is not compilation or anything. It is a new instance
> of emacs that opens up  (I have .c files associated with emacs) with the
> same code for hello.c displayed in it.

Because you're obviously running MS Losedos and since you do perform a compile action "apply C source file" a new instance of GNU Emacs is created to fulfil this.

As I wrote: don't "hello.c" something but compile it! At least me, I do not know of a C compiler named "hello.c". And this compiler seems to extremely clever, knowing which file to compile, how to compile it (32-bit/64-bit, object file, shared or static library, or executable).

To be more precise: I would M-x compile RET gcc  -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -fconstant-cfstrings -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src -I.../emacs-23.4-mac-2.0/lib-src -I.../emacs-23.4-mac-2.0/lib-src/../src -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-t   -v -g -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -Os -m64 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.2 .../emacs-23.4-mac-2.0/lib-src/digest-doc.c  -o digest-doc RET

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  Pete

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