Re: Running Programs from Inside Emacs

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"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> haziz <hsaziz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When using emacs for programming in C, I know how to compile programs from inside emacs using Mx compile to invoke make -k which then compiles using gcc (I am running Linux Mint on a desktop machine at home and also use Mac OS X on a laptop). 
>>
>> I have so far been unable to figure out how to "run" the resulting binary from inside emacs. I would like to be able to then run the binary file from inside emacs. So far I have had to exit emacs returning to my bash shell to run the binary by for e.g.    ./helloworld
>
> For non-interactive programs you can run them after the compilation:
>
> M-x compile RET C-e && ./helloword RET

IMO, better is to use the Makefile.

all: helloworld.test

helloworld:
        cc helloworld.c -o helloworld

helloworld.test: helloworld
        ./helloworld