Compiling C Program Under Unix

To compile the C program under Unix environment. We need C Compiler to compile C program. Some C compilers are cc, gcc and etc., In this cc compiler is available under any environment. To compile:

cc file_name.c

this will compile C program. To run,

./a.out

Example:

cc sample.c

To run this,

./a.out

Another way,

cc -o output_file file_name.c

To run this,

./output_file

Example:

cc -o sampleout sample.c

To run,

./sampleout