I’m having a problem running my first program

[twin urchin]

Im new to c++ and I’m trying to run my first program from the terminal, but I don’t think I’m in the right location. When I try to it says error no such file or directory

[daring lodge]

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[polar anvil]

Are you using windows or linux? Are you able to browse the file system on your own?

[kind crow]

Use cd on mac/(i think linux) and chdir on windows to change the directory to where the file is.

For example

# If the codefile was at
cd Documents/Code/main.cpp
chdir Documents/Code/main.cpp

# Then you do this to get into the directory
cd Documents/Code
chdir Documents/Code

Then you can run this on mac and linux systems (i think) to quick compile a single file into an executable.

# compiler_name, file(s), -o, executable name

# For example
g++ main.cpp -o main

i think the same thing will work with clang++

idk about windows

hope it helps

you can of course compile the file by just putting in the file path by itself, but its usually easier to change directories first

[silk cobalt]

In case you are using Visual Studio Code, with the C/C++ extensions, you can just select the Run menu, you will be able to select from the installed compilers that VS Code detects.

[daring lodge]

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