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From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher@ch.ristopher.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie - Can't compile and run C program
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:58:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120318215848.B36FB1FE38@saturn.ch.ristopher.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33527884.post@talk.nabble.com> (taariqq@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:11:32 -0700 (PDT)")

taariqq <taariqq@gmail.com> writes:

> Peter, I greatly appreciate your taking the time to respond. 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. There seems to be window flashing by just before that, but that
> is all

M-x compile RET asks you for the compile command.  For starters, try M-x
compile RET gcc hello.c RET.

        Christopher



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-18 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-18 18:16 Newbie - Can't compile and run C program taariqq
2012-03-18 20:21 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-03-18 21:11   ` taariqq
2012-03-18 21:57     ` Peter Dyballa
2012-03-18 21:58     ` Christopher Schmidt [this message]
2012-03-18 22:05       ` taariqq
2012-03-18 22:32       ` taariqq
2012-03-18 21:39 ` Lars Ljung
2012-03-18 22:08 ` taariqq

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