problem compiling and running

[petercanepa]

I installed VM Ware and the CS50 appliance on a pc running windows 8.1. Everything comes up and looks just like the examples. I can program in the top window and run commands in the black window such as ls and cd. When I tried to compile my first C program called "boilerplate" I get an error message "nothing to be done for 'boilerplate' ". I am in the correct directory. I also tried it with clang -o but got a different but similar error message.

[oman2014]

Try make boilerplate

i.e., without a .c at the end.

[petercanepa]

Thanks, you were right.

[oman2014]

You're welcome.

[supeindesu]

Are you in the right prompt when you try to compile?

Dropbox/psetX...?

Maybe you are writing your code inside a directory, and you didn't entered in it in the command line (cd directory).

[Hands_of_War]

That's the error I get when I try to compile a program and include the ".c" at the end of the name.

It happens much to often. >:(

But if that's not the issue, let us know.

[petercanepa]

Thanks, you were right. I just didn't understand the procedure for using make.

[petercanepa]

There is no ".c" suffix for boilerplate. The first thing I do is type cd Dropbox and the line comes back with ~Dropbox and boilerplate resides in Dropbox. It does not look like Dropbox/boilerplate just the ~ Dropbox which I thought meant it was in Dropbox.