I am beginning to work with micro controllers and programming them using C language.
All my programming experience is with Python language.
I know that if I want to test a script I have written in python, I can simply launch terminal and type in “python” with the path of the file I want to run.
I tried a web search, but most didn’t seem to understand what I was asking.
How do I run c from terminal?
C is not an interpreted language like Python or Perl. You cannot simply type C code and then tell the shell to execute the file. You need to compile the C file with a C compiler like gcc then execute the binary file it outputs.
For example, running gcc file.c will output a binary file with the name a.out. You can then tell the shell to execute the binary file by specifying the files full path ./a.out.
Edit:
As some comments and other answers have stated, there are some C interpreters that exist. However, I would argue that C compilers are more popular.
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