I have syntax error when i execute littles programs (drag and drop) in C on fedora

[David Gomez]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:15 +0200, bastidesamuel at neuf.fr wrote:
> I want to write littles programs in c on fedora
> I have done 
> vi prog
> then 
> chmod 755 prog
> 
> then i have drag and drop on "vi" some program of wiki dictionnary to
> test that it work 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "math.h"
> 
> int main(void)
> 		{
>   			printf("%d\n",add(3,5));
> 		}
> 
> but when I do ./prog
> it return to me
> ./popo: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `(' 
> ./popo: line 4: `int main(void)'
> 

Are you starting to learn how to program?

you have to compile a C program before you can execute it.
this will do for this time

gcc ./prog -o my_prog

Now, that compiled your program prog (you should rename it to prog.c)
and get an output file my_prog that you can execute

./my_prog