Compiler problem

[dam prayer noobs]

I'm new to programming so bear with me. I dled the mingw compiler along with devcpp and whenever i try to run my program the black screen momentarily appears and disappears. I downloaded the digital mars compiler also but that doesn't seem to work. I have windows 7 if that makes a difference or not. Can anyone tell me what the problem seems to be? thank you.

 

[Goomba]

Yeahh, does your script have return(0) or system("pause")

Please show me your script

 

[dam prayer noobs]

Yeahh, does your script have return(0) or system("pause")

Please show me your script

Yeah there's nothing wrong with the script. It compiles successfully but I can't run it for some reason. Whenever I press "run" the black screen pops up and I can read the stuff but the screen just disappears like instantly after it opens.

 

[blindkilla]

Yeah there's nothing wrong with the script. It compiles successfully but I can't run it for some reason. Whenever I press "run" the black screen pops up and I can read the stuff but the screen just disappears like instantly after it opens.

Yea this is because you need to throw a pause in. Nothing wrong with the compiler.

Add the include:

#include <stdlib.h>

And at the end of your code (before the return) add:

system("PAUSE");

 

[dam prayer noobs]

Yea this is because you need to throw a pause in. Nothing wrong with the compiler.

Add the include:

#include <stdlib.h>

And at the end of your code (before the return) add:

system("PAUSE");

holy shit thank you. im following a book on it and it didn't saying anything about a system("PAUSE"); but thank you.

 

holy shit thank you. im following a book on it and it didn't saying anything about a system("PAUSE"); but thank you.

The 'black screen' is just the console window.

Hit up start->run, type cmd.exe into the box and press enter.

You'll need to learn to use win32 command prompt if you want to be any sort of real programmer.

At a random search the following tutorial came up:
http://www.febooti.com/products/command-line-email/batch-files/ms-dos-prompt-introduction.html

 

[super_]

lol'd: dev-c++, digital mars compiler
oh my... ps system("pause"); is bloody disgusting

 

[Swan]

lol'd: dev-c++, digital mars compiler
oh my... ps system("pause"); is bloody disgusting

Agreed.

I suggest you try a more capable IDE like Code::Blocks. Also, never use System("pause");, use one of the stdio functions to take input from the person. Even so, I think CodeBlocks halts its own console when the program has finished executing.

 

[Eduard]

What happends in the code?

int main()
{
// code 
return 0; // it returns 0, INT <-- main(). it after it has succeed it quits. so does the program. 
}

solve?

int main()
{
//blabla
getchar();
return 0;
}

or 

int main()
{
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

or 

use cmd.exe