Write and Deploy Hello World in C

Problem

Printing text to screen using Hello World

tl;dr

nano hello_world.c
#include  //Library for standard input output - E.G printf function
main()
{
      printf("Hello World!\n"); // The \n is for new line.
}
gcc -o hello_world hello_world.c
./hello_world

Solution

Hello World is a classic example of the most basic functions of C.
The following information will show you how to use the printf function to print text to a screen.
This function can be used to print instructions or other information in your program.

Step 1: Confirm you have gcc installed

First we want to make sure our compiler is installed.

You can confirm it's installed, or install it even by running this command:

yum install gcc -y

If it is already installed, you will see this:

Package gcc-4.4.7-11.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Or it will install it.

Step 2: Create your C file

nano hello_world.c

Enter the following to create a simple hello world C file, which prints "Hello world!"

#include  //Library for standard input output - E.G printf function
main()
{
      printf("Hello World!\n"); // The \n is for new line.
}

Exit nano by pushing Ctrl+X and then S to save changes.

Step 3: Compile your C file.

gcc -o hello_world hello_world.c

This will get gcc to compile the file to hello_world from hello_world.c.
It will return nothing if there are no errors.

Next - run your file!

./hello_world
Hello World!
[root@nowhere /]#

You should be able to compile any valid C file now.