[Mono-list] Console won't locate Hello.cs

[Ian Norton]

The compiler will look exactly where you tell it.

I'm assuming you have a cmd window, so see a prompt like:-

c:\users\jason>

If you save your source file on the desktop, you need to "cd" into the desktop
folder. eg:

c:\users\jason> cd Desktop
c:\users\jason\Desktop>

Then you can invoke the compiler and tell it to find your source, eg:

c:\users\jason\Desktop> gmcs hello.cs /out:hello.exe

If I were you, I'd download Xamarin studio and use that if you want to avoid
lots of fun with cmd windows.

Ian

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Jason_G wrote:
> This is probably a sill problem but I cannot seem to fix it, I am following
> the Mono-Basic tutorial and trying to use the console to say "hello world".
> I'm using windows and have created a file called hello.cs with all the
> required code. But when I open up the console and type gmcs hello.cs I get
> the following error.
> 
> "error CS2001: Source file 'hello.cs' could not be found Compilation failed:
> 1 error(s), 0 warnings"
> 
> I have currently saved the file to my desktop, is there somewhere else I
> should save it? or am I doing something wrong? Like I said this is probably
> a silly problem, but I am very new to this and would really appreciate some
> help.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
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