How do I execute a file in Cygwin

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How can I execute a exe using the Cygwin shell   I created a C file in Eclipse on Windows and then used Cygwin to navigate to the directory  I called gcc on the C source file and a exe was produced  I would like to run a exe

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gcc under cygwin does not generate a Linux executable output file of type " ELF 32-bit LSB executable," but it generates a windows executable of type "PE32 executable for MS Windows" which has a dependency on cygwin1.dll, so it needs to be run under cygwin shell. If u need to run it under dos prompt independently, they cygwin1.dll needs to be in your Windows PATH.

-AD.

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a exe at the prompt

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To execute a file in the current directory  the syntax to use is    foo  As mentioned by allain    a exe is the correct way to execute a exe in the working directory using Cygwin   Note  You may wish to use the -o parameter to cc to specify your own output filename  An example of this would be  cc helloworld c -o helloworld exe

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Just call it   gt  a   Make sure it will be found  path

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Apparently  gcc doesn t behave like the one described in The C Programming language  where it says that the command cc helloworld c produces a file called a out which can be run by typing a out on the prompt    A Unix hasn t behaved in that way by default  so you can just write the executable name without    at the front  in a long time  It s called a exe  because else Windows won t execute it  as it gets file types from the extension

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Thomas wrote      Apparently  gcc doesn t behave like the one described in The C Programming language   It does in general   For your program to run on Windows it needs to end in  exe   the C Programming language  was not written with Windows programmers in mind   As you ve seen  cygwin emulates many  but not all  features of a POSIX environment

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just type   a in the shell

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you should just be able to call it by typing in the file name   You may have to call   a exe as the current directory is usually not on the path for security reasons

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When you start in Cygwin you are in the   home Administrator  zone  so put your a exe file there   Then at the prompt run      cd a exe    It will be read in by Cygwin and you will be asked to install it

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