Re: Really easy cygwin / gcc question

"Default User" <defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Michael wrote:

Hi Vladimir,

I just used:
gcc -g test.c -o test.exe

I get no warnings or errors

Thanks for your help.

Don't top-post. Your replies belong following or interspersed with the
quotes.

As one person already mentioned, there is a progam called "test" on
most UNIX systems. Also, if you're running from the CYGWIN shell you
can't leave off the extension when you run it the way you can with
Windows or DOS. That's why progams developed on UNIX systems tend not
to have the .exe extension, as it doesn't mean (or do) anything special.

<WAY_OT>
Cygwin runs under Windows, so executables always have names ending in
".exe". You can omit the extension when you execute the program;
Cygwin does some magic to let you refer to the file as either "foo" or
"foo.exe". If there's a shell script called "foo" and an executable
called "foo.exe", it resolves the ambiguity in some manner that I
can't be bothered to remember.
</WAY_OT>

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