Question

This is a n00b question and I’ve seen an answer that does not help me.

I’m running a simple c program (firsty.c) written in textmate:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("hi world.\n");
    return 0;
}

I’ve entered the following into the terminal with the following results:

$ make firsty.c
make: Nothing to be done for `firsty.c'.
$ ./firsty.c
./firsty.c: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./firsty.c: line 3: `int main()'

probably something simple, but I don’t understand what’s wrong.

Answer 1

make firsty.c isn’t doing anything at all. Try instead make firsty, and then ./firsty.