Get started with C as quickly as possible.
This repository contains concise code examples with sufficient explanations to help readers begin programming in C. The focus is on idiomatic and standard C practices without complicated or overly opinionated design decisions.
NOTE: I've purposefully have used .exe for target extension files in examples, it makes the Makefile and the compile commands can be used on windows and linux the same.
There are numerous resources available for setting up a C compiler, and if you're here, you likely have one installed. This guide assumes you're familiar with command-line compilation using gcc or clang on POSIX or Wondows operating systems.
If you prefer using an IDE like CLion or Visual Studio 2022, feel free to consult specific resources for those tools.
The Zig programming language compiler can serve as a convenient, drop-in C compiler.
You can download it from here. After installation, add it to your system path or use it directly from the command line with ../../zig/zig cc .... You get the idea.
Here is an alternative if you want a portable and fully configured gnu build environment check out W64DevKit.
To setup and config the environment automatically you can run the following script (source code here) on Windows Powershell:
powershell -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dezashibi-c/b-hello-world/main/install.ps1 | iex"Note: The script downloads the latest release and install it in C drive and add the bin folder
to the user's PATH.
Don't worry I have that script for you as well!
Same as W64DevKit installer, this script downloads latest DevCPP, git and cmake, extract them to C drive and add their corresponding bin folder to the user's PATH, for DevCPP a shortcut to it's portable executable file also will be created on your desktop.
powershell -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dezashibi-c/b-hello-world/main/install_extra.ps1 | iex"👉 Together with W64DevKit you have now everything to start writing code, well go on!
Alright, Alright, I hear you, check out here.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License.
Please refer to LICENSE file.
The devcpp.zip file is built by downloading the latest version of Dev-C++ from here, extracting it and re-packing it to zip instead of 7z after configuration to work with W64DevKit.
👉 This re-distribution complies with Dev-C++ license here.