Question

Related to this question. What’s the process for compiling a C program (assume 1 file)?

Answer 1

Quoting http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/c-on-unix/c-on-unix.html:

The easiest case of compilation is when you have all your source code set in a single file.

cc single_main.c

You might complain that ‘a.out’ is a too generic name (where does it come from anyway? – well, that’s a historical name, due to the usage of something called “a.out format” for programs compiled on older Unix systems). Suppose that you want the resulting program to be called “single_main”. In that case, you could use the following line to compile it:

cc single_main.c -o single_main