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Hello, I would like to know how to run this C program in Visual Studio. I know that C needs to be compiled – But have no idea how to do this. All the videos on youtube about this are totally useless. I just want this program to compile and then run. Who can help me a little bit with this? I ask you not to send me links to external sites, especially not Stackoverflow – I am grateful for your help, but that has never helped me. Sorry for my little choleric streak, but I’ve been trying to get this crap together for an hour and a half. Thanks and LG

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The C/C++ extension does not include a C++ compiler or debugger. You need to make sure you have the necessary tools installed. Check if Mingw-w64 is correctly installed and available. To do this, open a new command prompt and enter the following

g ++ --version gdb --version

Run C program in Visual Studio code How I know this:Work experience Before you start programming C with any IDEs, you should first familiarize yourself with the compiler. So take a normal text editor and gcc. Later you can have a look at make and CMake. And after that you start to use an IDE.

What do you want to know?

Creating a simple C console application

To start after a successful installation of Visual Studio Community 2015 (including successful registration) to be able to program in C, a few more steps are required. If at the first attempt to create a new project in C++ the fields for the paths to the project should only appear grayed out, the required components for Visual C++ and Windows have to be installed afterwards. This process can take some time, at least a cup of coffee was not enough for us to bridge the time until completion, whereby we waived the support for XP for a first test. Installing components for Visual C++ Before starting to download the needed components, a hint is displayed to quit Visual Studio, which can be done by a simple click on the window that is in the background. This does not interrupt the actual download and installation.

Creating a new C project

A new project, as the name suggests, must be created as a project and not just as a file. For a C console application, we create an empty project, which we eventually want to fill with the required code alone. Creating a project Whether we want to create a C or a C++ project does not yet play a decisive role in this step. These Visual C++ notes only initially irritate one or the other beginner a little, but are more or less inconsequential, since we do not yet need to decide between C and C++ at this point. Creating a project as an empty C project Since our first small project is still empty and does not yet contain a single file with code written by us, we have to add a file. To do this, open Solution Explorer. Open Solution and select source files Adding elements (files) is done by a simple right-click on the corresponding directory. Add an element with the extension c or cpp to the source files Each added element or file needs, besides a unique name, a no less unique extension (extension) and at this point, for a C project alone, we need to pay attention to the correct extension, which should be c and not cpp. An element with the extension c (not cpp) Add to source files In this file we can now insert some C code, where “main()” function is the main function in all C programs. Insert a simple C code in source file For this small tutorial a simple example with “Hello world” was selected consciously, but it can be written naturally likewise more complex applications in C, up to complete operating systems. Only the trend goes increasingly in the direction of higher programming languages.

Select project properties

We do not rely on the fact that the compiler of the Visual Studio recognizes an application written in C or in C++ by itself at the extension, but select before the debugging the available compiler for C (TC) before debugging. This way we make sure that our small C program is really compiled as a C program. To do this, right-click on the project and select “Properties” in the context menu that pops up. Select project properties and compile as C code.

Debugging and building the program

Once we have reached this point with our first small program written in C, we can debug it to see if it runs without errors. If it does not, the debugger will alert us to errors. If the latter is the case, it can sometimes sprout some gray hairs, but it all helps nothing, we have to find and fix the error(s). Debugging the program If the debugging runs without errors, we can finally create our first program, because before it is compiled by the compiler to a file with the extension *.exe, it is not yet a program, but only a started project. Debugging and creating a program If everything went successfully, we can now close Visual Studio and search for our program.exe. This should be located inside the saved project in the Debug directory and can be called from now on with a click. Bella Kombo Songs.