C Installation

Setting up a C development environment.

1. GCC Installation

Windows

• Download MinGW from mingw.org
• Or use MSYS2: pacman -S mingw-w64-gcc

Linux

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install build-essential

# CentOS/RHEL
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

macOS

# Install Xcode Command Line Tools
xcode-select --install

# Or use Homebrew
brew install gcc

2. Verification

gcc --version

3. Basic Compilation

gcc program.c -o program
./program

4. IDE Options

• VS Code with C/C++ extension
• Code::Blocks
• Dev-C++
• CLion (paid)
• Visual Studio (Windows)

5. Makefiles

CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -Wall -g

program: program.c
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) program.c -o program

clean:
    rm -f program