C development in Linux

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Folder Structure

Create the git folder (and the standard subfolder structure of gqc) in user ~Home directory.

Setting up the environment

1. Make sure everything is up-to-date and install the packaged build tools

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt upgrade  
   sudo apt install build-essential

2. Verify the installation

   whereis gcc make
   gcc --version
   make -v

3. Install man pages (optional):

   sudo apt-get install manpages-dev man-db manpages-posix-dev

   Test:

   man 3 scanf
   man 2 execve
   man 2 fork

4. Compiling and running

   make test

   For compiling and creating the executable of a c code file with name <test>.c
   Equivalent to gcc test.c -o test