I just got started writing some C programs.
To start with I was just running them through VS code. Nice and easy, I just had to press a button and bam, there it was.
But now I need to pass files as arguments to my program, which creates the need of running it from the command line.
The way I do it now, is using this two step process, (which I think is just the basic way of doing it):
ask@Garsy:~/Notes/ethHack/crpytifiles$ gcc test.c -o test
and then running the file:
ask@Garsy:~/Notes/ethHack/crpytifiles$ ./test
This is a bit tedious in the long run. Is there any way I could do this process in one step?
And perhaps also without creating the executable?
It would be really cool if I could just run it as you normally would with a python or java file, one command, and the thing runs.
You could do that with a makefile. More about GNU Make here.
all:
gcc test.c -o test
./test
The file should be called Makefile or makefile (it can have different names,just keeping it simple), and you can run it by executing:
make
Assuming you have GNU Make installed and test.c is located in the same directory with makefile.