How to RUN C by Microsoft Visual Studio

[Mike]

Hi

I would like to use microsoft visual studio to compile a C program.
Does somebody know how to compile, link and run it?
I create a project and add a program to it.
I press F5 to start debug (because I cannot find any command to run,
why?).
A console window just appears and close very quickly.
How can I pause the console window?

Mike

 

[Ian Collins]

Hi

I would like to use microsoft visual studio to compile a C program.
Does somebody know how to compile, link and run it?

That somebody will be reading one of the visual studio groups!

 

[Mike]

That somebody will be reading one of the visual studio groups!

thank you for your reply.

Mike

 

[Kenneth Brody]

Hi

I would like to use microsoft visual studio to compile a C program.
Does somebody know how to compile, link and run it?
I create a project and add a program to it.
I press F5 to start debug (because I cannot find any command to run,
why?).

<OT>
Ctrl-F5. It's right there in the "build" menu. I can't answer "why"
you cannot find it.

A console window just appears and close very quickly.
How can I pause the console window?

Dunno. My programs always pause after running, if run with the IDE.
You'll need to ask in one of the Microsoft-related newsgroups why yours
doesn't.

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[Malcolm McLean]

Hi

I would like to use microsoft visual studio to compile a C program.
Does somebody know how to compile, link and run it?
I create a project and add a program to it.
I press F5 to start debug (because I cannot find any command to run,
why?).

You'd have to ask Microsoft that one. The IDE is rather fiddly to use,
though quite powerful when you get used to it.

A console window just appears and close very quickly.
How can I pause the console window?

Call getchar() before your program exits. This forces it to read input from
stdin, or keyboard.

 

[pete]

Hi

I would like to use microsoft visual studio to compile a C program.
Does somebody know how to compile,

Ctrl F7

link
F7

and run it?
I create a project and add a program to it.
I press F5 to start debug
(because I cannot find any command to run, why?).
A console window just appears and close very quickly.
How can I pause the console window?

Don't run the program from the MSVC console window.
Open another window from outside of MSVC,
and cd (change directory) to where the executable files wind up,
amd run your programs from there.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

pete said:

Ctrl F7


F7

Well, I'm not about to fire up a Windows machine to check, but ISTR that
the exact keypresses may depend on which keyboard bindings you selected
when you installed VS. The reason I use weasel words like "may" is that I
may be disremembering - it may only be the editor itself to which these
choices apply.

Don't run the program from the MSVC console window.

Good advice, but there is an alternative: Ctrl-F5 (or whatever), which runs
the program outside the debugger and displays the legend "Press any key to
continue" (or some trivial variant thereof) when the program terminates.

Open another window from outside of MSVC,

A console window, that is. In modern Windowses, this can be done by
pressing Windows-R and entering the command

cmd

In older Windowses, the command is

command

and cd (change directory) to where the executable files wind up,
amd run your programs from there.

Right. Note that the executable files tend to be created in subdirectories
of the development directory, with the default names "debug" or "release",
depending on whether you're building a debug version or a release version.

Might I suggest that any further discussion of this stuff more properly
belongs in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 or one of the Microsoft
groups?