compile c program at command prompt

how can we compile a c program at the command promt.

To compile and run a C program using a command-line C compiler, you have to go through the following steps:

(i) Write the C program (call it ``myfile.c'') in a text editor or word processor (for example, the simple ``Hello'' program below),
(ii) Save it as a file on your computer's hard disk,
(iii) ``Compile it'' to a computer-executable program by entering a compile command
at a command prompt, for example for the following C compiler programs:
gcc -Wall -o myfile myfile.c (using the GNU C compiler, UNIX or Microsoft Windows)
cl myfile.c (Microsoft Visual C++ command-line compiler)
bcc32 myfile.c (Borland C/C++ compiler, Microsoft Windows)


followed by the ``Enter'' key, and finally

(iv) Run the program by entering

myfile

at a command prompt, again followed by ``Enter''. If you want to save the output of ``myfile'' as a text file ``myfile.txt'', enter instead

myfile > myfile.txt

c:\>admin/student/
c:\>admin/student/cd..
c:\>admin/cd..
c:\>cd tc
c:\>cd bin
c:\>tc

compiling through command promt generally people use cc followed by ur .c file name,i think more practice is needed for u

In linux Terminal you can use following statement to compile your program:

g++ -o prog_name my_prog.cpp

and

./prog_name

will execute the program