Compile and run a file.c using Tiny C Compiler on Windows

Question

Could I get a step by step on how to compile my file.c using Tiny C Compiler and Windows prompt?

Some questions I already have:

1. Where do I stick all TCC files from the download?
2. Do I have to compile stdio.h to use the printf function? (I'd like to do a 'Hello World').

This is what my file.c looks like:

// #include <stdio.h> // for printf 
int main(void){
printf("Hello Eric. You've compiled and run the program! \n");
}

Thanks,

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EDIT 1

So far I'm running it and getting the error: include file 'stdio.h' not found.

Answer 1

1. you put the files wherever you like.

2. no, you do not need to compile stdio.h in order to use the printf() function.

the tcc-distribution (tcc-0.9.25-win32-bin\tcc) consists of this:

 tcc.exe
 tiny_impdef.exe
 tiny_libmaker.exe
 include\
 stdio.h ...
 lib\
 libtcc1.a ...
 doc\
 examples\ 

if you do not tear that order apart, tcc should work out of the box (i compiled a hello.c seconds ago). if you separated the files or something else does not work:

% tcc.exe -Ipath/to/include/folder/of/tcc input.c -L/path/to/lib/folder/of/

by looking at the source code of tcc i found this:

/* on win32, we suppose the lib and includes are at the location
 of 'tcc.exe' */
char path[1024], *p;
GetModuleFileNameA(NULL, path, sizeof path);
p = tcc_basename(normalize_slashes(strlwr(path)));

so, per default it assumes the libs and the headers to be in the place right next to the tcc.exe.

• Eric Brotto: Could you explain a bit what you are doing in that first chunk of code? Are those commands I enter into the prompt before running my code?
• akira: @Eric Brotto: the first block is the listing of the files in the tcc distribution. the second block is something you could type into your prompt.
• Eric Brotto: Thanks and excuse me for my ignorance. So I basically just run that seccond block of code (the one liner) and I should be okay?
• akira: @Eric Brotto: if you keep the files of the tcc distribution intact, then you just run tcc.exe file.c
• Eric Brotto: This worked! You rock! Thanks for getting back to my comments :)