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I have GCC running on my Ubuntu operating system. I wrote a small program in C and tried compiling it. Its output was an a.out file like it would do on Windows. How can I make it put out a Linux executable?
Solution 1:[1]
Suppose your C file is f.c.
gcc f.c gives the a.out executable, and you can run it in a terminal as ./a.out.
gcc f.c -o myprog gives myprog as the executable, and you can run it in a terminal as ./myprog.
Solution 2:[2]
It is a Linux executable. a.out files (actual a.out format, not files named a.out by default) cannot be executed on Windows.
In both cases, most likely you get a standard executable usable in the local system, but named a.out. On Linux it's an ELF file.
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | Peter Mortensen |
| Solution 2 | Peter Mortensen |