[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: Works in Eclipse but not in console on Linu

[Paul Rice <p_rice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens Seidel wrote:

> Paul Rice wrote:
>> I just wrote my first HelloWorld app in Eclipse on linux and it runs
>> great in Eclipse but not in my Linux console. Konqueror identifies it as
>> an executable but tells me "bash: HelloWorld: command not found" when I
>> try to run it. Am I missing a step here?
> 
> No, probably not. Please post your code and your command invocation.
> I doubt that there is any relation to eclipse.
> 
> Note that the current path is per default not in PATH where the shell
> searches for commands (for security reasons). So try
> ./HelloWorld with "./".
> 
> Is your binary executable (very likely), do you have permission to start
> binaries in the filesystem (mount option noexec forbids it IIRC).
> 
> Could it be that your path is strange? Contains it spaces or 8-bit
> characters?
> 
> Jens


It was the "./". I'm a new Linux convert after working in windows for the
last decade and this is one of those little Linux quirks I didn't know.

Thanks