Question

I’m don’t seem to be able to generate random number in C under Ubuntu 12.04.

I wrote the fallowing code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <curses.h>
int main (int argc,char* argv[])
{
     int number;
     clear();

     number = rand() % 2; // want to get only 0 or 1

     printf("%d",number);
     getch();
     return 0;
}

I named the file “test_gcc.c”.

After that I compile it with:

$ sudo gcc -o test_gcc test_gcc.c

And i get the following message:

/tmp/ccT0s12v.o: In function `main':
test_gcc.c:(.text+0xa): undefined reference to `stdscr'
test_gcc.c:(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `wclear'
test_gcc.c:(.text+0x44): undefined reference to `stdscr'
test_gcc.c:(.text+0x4c): undefined reference to `wgetch'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Can somebody tell me what did I do wrong?

And also how to generate random number in C on Ubuntu 12.04 using gcc?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with random numbers. The problem is that you’re linking without the curses library.

You need to add -lncurses to your gcc command line:

 $ gcc -o test_file test_file.c -lncurses