Question

I would like to create an executable of my two mycode.c and my main.c, how can I create an executable? i did

gcc mycode.c main.c

and it generates a a.out, but when i click it it would not run.. (i am new to this so please bear with me)

Thank you

Answer 1

Try this

gcc mycode.c main.c -o myprogram

Then run ./myprogram

If you double click it you probably won’t see anything, you should instead try running it from the command line, where you compiled it from in the first place.