Execute C/C++ program in Notepad2

Question

So I have MinGW and with tweaking, I can run GCC in my CMD. What format do I need to have the file in to run it from the CMD? I tried simply just saving a notepad2 file in C scheme and it won't recognize it.

Answer 1

Seems like you are skipping over the fundamentals of compiling source code into binary executables. You should read up on that. But to cut to the chase, if you have a C program that you have typed into an editor, and saved into a file with .c extension -- let's use bedbug.c for example -- then you would use GCC with the command:

gcc bedbug.c -o bedbug

which if completely successful will say absolutely nothing. But you will then have a bedbug.exe that you can run simply by typing bedbug at the CMD prompt. You need to specify the -o part to give the name of the .exe, otherwise it will, for historical reasons, create a file named a.exe (which you could then rename as a separate step, but that's not how people usually do it).