I use VSC to make a simple hello work c++. Then I use "g++ c.cpp -o c" to compile, but I cannot run the c.exe file by command "c.exe". I remember I could run c++ before in the same way. Do I miss anything? Could you help me please?
It seems like c.exe is there.
Since you are using PowerShell, you need to run local files with a .\ prefix, e.g. .\c.exe
Visual Studio Code 1.46.1
Operating system: MacOS 10.15.4 (Catalina)
VS Code Package used: C/C++, Code Runner
Problem: When I run a C++ code using Code Runner, a file with no extension automatically appear.
I would like to know what does this 'useless file' do, and how to make these files stop from spawning.
That is the executable file also called binary file. They are the executable like .exe in windows so it is very useful(as it is the output of source code). If you dont want to see that file in sidebar of vscode then there is a good answer to this question. Alternatively you can configure your build configuration file (located at .vscode in you working directory) and set the build path to somewhere else
You are using Code Runner extension on vscode then you can modify the execution command.
Go to Code-runner: Executor Map Setting
I did this:
"code-runner.executorMap": {
...
"c": "cd $dir && gcc $fileName -o ./temp/$fileNameWithoutExt && $dir./temp/$fileNameWithoutExt",
...
}
create a temp folder.
Now your temp folder will contain those unwanted files.
You can modify execution command like this for c++ also.
So I have started to use Sublime Text 3 recently with my Ubuntu OS. I wanted to test it out so wrote a simple piece of c++ code. But when I try to build it does nothing, I have checked online and still nothing I even installed a build system (https://github.com/shikharkunal99/Sublime-Build-System) and still whenever I go to build it just opens open a black section at the bottom (see picture)
Install g++ to run c++ code
apt-get install g++
Then I will tell you a personal trick that I used. it is:
find | grep "part of your filename"
Replace "part of your filename" section with the name of the file or a part of the name of the file.
Suppose, the file name is Here.c. I type "Here" in place of part of your filename.
Then the final step, type
./a.out
Output is ready in front of you.
This post will help you in setting up Sublime Text 3 in a way that leads to a good workflow specifically for C++ programming environment (Ubuntu, GNU C++ Compiler) :
Note: Only the following step is essential for running c++ programs.
1. Create a Build System in Sublime Editor :
Sublime Text provides build systems to allow users to run external programs.
Go to Tools -> Build System -> New Build System.
Paste the following code in the file
{
"cmd": ["g++ -Wall -Wextra -O2 -pthread -H -std=c++17 \"${file}\" -o runfile && ./runfile <input.in> output.out"],
//above line works fine if input.in and output.out files are present in same directory in which .cpp file is present else add complete address of these files for using them as common input output files in your system.
"shell":true,
"working_dir":"$file_path",
"selector":"source.c,source.c++,source.cpp",
"variants": [
{
"name": "Variant Run",
"cmd" : ["gnome-terminal -- bash -c \"g++ $file_name ;echo ------------Output-------------; ./a.out;echo;echo; echo Press ENTER to continue; read line;exit; exec bash\""
],
}
]
}
Save the file (By default the file is placed in "~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User" dir) something like "C++17.sublime-build" to differentiate it from the other build system files.
Create input.in and output.out text files in your working directory. This can be used for piping input from the input.in file, and output to the output.out file.
Note in the first line it uses the -std=c++17 flag to enable the latest features of C++17. If you don't want this or want to use C++14, replace this with the -std=c++14 flag.
Refer to https://linux.die.net/man/1/g++ for different compiler flags.
See Also https://discuss.codechef.com/t/are-any-compiler-flags-set-on-the-online-judge/1866
2. Setup window layout :
Create three new c++ file, file.cpp. Select View > Layout > Columns : 3. This will create three columns in the workspace. Select View > Groups > Max Columns : 2.
Write a hello world program & save inputs if any in the input.in file, and test its working. Use Shift+Ctrl+B and Select C++17 to build and execute the file (If selected C++17 - Variant Run it will execute the program in a separate terminal window like a normal program would).
The windows will look like this when you are done.
Layout Preview
3. Precompile headers :
Generally useful in competitive programming, we can speed up compilation time by precompiling all the header files as mentioned here, i.e. by precompiling the bits/stdc++.h header file.
For this, first, navigate to the stdc++.h file. This will be located at a directory similar to ~/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/9/bits Open terminal window here.
Run the command sudo g++ -std=c++17 stdc++.h, to compile the header. Take care to use the same flags you used in your build system. Check to make sure that the stdc++.h.gch file was created in that directory.
4. Sublime Text features :
Snippets & Completion
Read up on the documentation of snippets and completions at the official guide.
5. Other Features :
Read https://scotch.io/bar-talk/best-of-sublime-text-3-features-plugins-and-settings
This program works perfectly fine for me using Build 3120, and I expect it will work fine with previous builds. First, you need to select Tools → Build System → C++ Single File (Tools → Build System → Automatic should also work, but I prefer to be explicit). Then, either hit CtrlShiftB or select Tools → Build With… and select C++ Single File - Run. This will compile your .cpp file to an executable in the same directory as the source file, then run it.
Well I also got various issues with this thing finally I got an amazing thing in the package control pallet.Follow the instructions:
1.Open up the Package control Pallet
2.Search for C++ Builder
3.You will see C++ Builder-Mingyang Yang
4.click it and then wait for a couple of seconds
5.finally go to tools->build system->select C++ Builder-Mingyang Yang
6.finally tap the Shift+Ctrl+B and then select C++ Builder-Mingyang Yang Build and Run
7.finally here you go you can not only build this but also use the console for input
Note:This will execute only when there is gcc compiler included in the terminal otherwise at first install gcc by the command apt-get install gcc then you can use c++
I'm trying to get up and running with Boost, so I'm trying to compile the simple example problem from Boost's "Getting Started" page. I've had two issues, and I'm not sure they're related (I'm better than a novice, but not by much) but maybe they're related...
1st issue: the "tar --bzip2 -xf /path/to/boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2" command didn't work (yes, I put the correct path in, but it gave me some errors, I forget what they were) so I used "tar -xjvf " from the directory where boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2 was located. That de-compressed the zip file and I proceeded with the example...
2nd issue: The example.cpp file will not compile, the first statement in the code is #include "boost/lambda/lambda.hpp" but then for every header file lambda.hpp is trying access, there's a "No such file or directory" compile error. For example, here are two (of the six, and I get errors for all 6) header files within lambda.hpp and the errors displayed by the cygwin compiler:
boost/lambda/lambda.hpp:14:33: boost/lambda/core.hpp: No such file or directory
boost/lambda/lambda.hpp:21:52: boost/lambda/detail/operator_actions.hpp: No such file or directory
If it helps, this is the command I'm running to compile (I generally create the executable in a separate -o command):
g++ -c example.cpp
Why can't the system find these? I added the installed directory (path/to/boost_1_49_0) to the PATH variable before I started so I know that's no it. Thanks for any advice...
(I've looked on stackoverflow and there were similar issues, but no solutions that worked)
It looks like you've already solved the first issue: namely, that you must specify the -j flag on tar to untar a bzip2'd file.
For the second issue, you need to specify boost on your include path, either by specifying it with the -I command line option or via the CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable.
How can I compile/run C or C++ code in a Unix console or a Mac terminal?
If it is a simple single-source program,
make foo
where the source file is foo.c, foo.cpp, etc., you don’t even need a makefile. Make has enough built-in rules to build your source file into an executable of the same name, minus the extension.
Running the executable just built is the same as running any program - but you will most often need to specify the path to the executable as the shell will only search what is in $PATH to find executables, and most often that does not include the current directory (.).
So to run the built executable foo:
./foo
gcc main.cpp -o main.out
./main.out
This is the command that works on all Unix machines... I use it on Linux/Ubuntu, but it works in OS X as well. Type the following command in Terminal.app.
g++ -o lab21 iterative.cpp
-o is the letter O, not zero
lab21 will be your executable file
iterative.cpp is your C++ file
After you run that command, type the following in the terminal to run your program:
./lab21
Two steps for me:
First:
make foo
Then:
./foo
All application execution in a Unix (Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, etc.) environment depends on the executable search path.
You can display this path in the terminal with this command:
echo $PATH
On Mac OS X (by default) this will display the following colon separated search path:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
So any executable in the listed directories can by run just by typing in their name. For example:
cat mytextfile.txt
This runs /bin/cat and displays mytextfile.txt to the terminal.
To run any other command that is not in the executable search path requires that you qualify the path to the executable. So say I had an executable called MyProgram in my home directory on Mac OS X I can fully qualify it like so:
/Users/oliver/MyProgram
If you are in a location that is near the program you wished to execute you can qualify the name with a partial path. For example, if MyProgram was in the directory /Users/oliver/MyProject I and I was in my home directory I can qualify the executable name like this, and have it execute:
MyProject/MyProgram
Or say I was in the directory /Users/oliver/MyProject2 and I wanted to execute /Users/oliver/MyProject/MyProgram I can use a relative path like this, to execute it:
../MyProject/MyProgram
Similarly if I am in the same directory as MyProgram I need to use a "current directory" relative path. The current directory you are in is the period character followed by a slash. For example:
./MyProgram
To determine which directory you are currently in use the pwd command.
If you are commonly putting programs in a place on your hard disk that you wish to run without having to qualify their names. For example, if you have a "bin" directory in your home directory for regularly used shell scripts of other programs it may be wise to alter your executable search path.
This can be does easily by either creating or editing the existing .bash_profile file in your home directory and adding the lines:
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
Here the tilde (~) character is being used as a shortcut for /Users/oliver. Also note that the hash bang (#!) line needs to be the first line of the file (if it doesn't already exist). Note also that this technique requires that your login shell be bash (the default on Mac OS X and most Linux distributions). Also note that if you want your programs installed in ~/bin to be used in preference to system executables your should reorder the export statement as follows:
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Do all of this in "Terminal".
To use the G++ compiler, you need to do this:
Navigate to the directory in which you stored the *.cpp file.
cd ~/programs/myprograms/
(the ~ is a shortcut for your home, i.e. /Users/Ryan/programs/myprograms/, replace with the location you actually used.)
Compile it
g++ input.cpp -o output.bin (output.bin can be anything with any extension, really. Extension .bin is just common on Unix.)
There should be nothing returned if it was successful, and that is okay. Generally you get returns on failures.
However, if you type ls, you will see the list of files in the same directory. For example, you would see the other folders, input.cpp and output.bin
From inside the directory, now execute it with ./outbut.bin
A compact way to go about doing that could be:
make foo && ./$_
It is nice to have a one-liner so you can just rerun your executable again easily.
Assuming the current directory is not in the path, the syntax is ./[name of the program].
For example ./a.out
To compile C or C++ programs, there is a common command:
make filename
./filename
make will build your source file into an executable file with the same name. But if you want to use the standard way, You could use the gcc compiler to build C programs and g++ for C++.
For C:
gcc filename.c
./a.out
For C++:
g++ filename.cpp
./a.out
Add the following to get the best warnings, and you will not regret it. If you can, compile using WISE (warning is error).
- Wall -pedantic -Weffc++ -Werror
Step 1 - create a cpp file using the command
touch test.cpp
Step 2 - Run this command
g++ test.cpp
Step 3 - Run your cpp file
./a.out
I am on a new MacBook Pro with the Apple M1 Pro chip. I have my Xcode installed - both IDE and command line tools. This is how it worked for me:
g++ one.cpp -o one
./one
Use a makefile. Even for very small (= one-file) projects, the effort is probably worth it because you can have several sets of compiler settings to test things. Debugging and deployment works much easier this way.
Read the make manual. It seems quite long at first glance, but most sections you can just skim over. All in all, it took me a few hours and made me much more productive.
I found this link with directions:
http://www.wesg.ca/2007/11/how-to-write-and-compile-c-programs-on-mac-os-x/
Basically you do:
gcc hello.c
./a.out (or with the output file of the first command)
In order to compile and run C++ source code from a Mac terminal, one needs to do the following:
If the path of .cpp file is somePath/fileName.cpp, first go the directory with path somePath
To compile fileName.cpp, type c++ fileName.cpp -o fileName
To run the program, type ./fileName
Just enter in the directory in which your .c/.cpp file is.
For compiling and running C code.
gcc filename.c
./a.out filename.c
For compiling and running C++ code.
g++ filename.cpp
./a.out filename.cpp
You need to go into the folder where you have saved your file.
To compile the code: gcc fileName
You can also use the g++ fileName
This will compile your code and create a binary.
Now look for the binary in the same folder and run it.
For running C++ files, run the below command, assuming the file name is "main.cpp".
Compile to make an object file from C++ file.
g++ -c main.cpp -o main.o
Since #include <conio.h> is not supported on macOS, we should use its alternative which is supported on Mac. That is #include <curses.h>. Now the object file needs to be converted to an executable file. To use file curses.h, we have to use library -lcurses.
g++ -o main main.o -lcurses
Now run the executable.
./main
Running a .C file using the terminal is a two-step process.
The first step is to type gcc in the terminal and drop the .C file to the terminal, and then press Enter:
gcc /Desktop/test.c
In the second step, run the following command:
~/a.out