Can not execute binary file in ubuntu 12.04

**assaf2** · February 22nd, 2014

Hello everyone,

I am a new user at ubuntu and I'm programming c in that platform.

Now I tried two ways to work, on the simple document writer and in Eclipse.

I both ways when I try to run a program on the terminal I get the following message:

Code:

bash: ./myprog: cannot execute binary file

Where myprog is a compiled c program with this code:

Code:

gcc -ansi -Wall -c first.c -o myprog

My system is windows 8.1 with 64bit.
Please note that I have had a 64bit OS on my previous laptop and I managed to run files in that ubuntu system with no problems, so I don't think it's a 64-bit 32-bit kind of problem.
It doesn't matter if I write the code on eclipse or in the document writer, everytime I try to run my file I get the same error.

Please, your help is highly appriciated, thank you!

**Impavidus** · February 22nd, 2014

So, do you use Windows 8 or Ubuntu 12.04? Programs compiled on Windows won't run on Ubuntu, and vice versa. Running your programs in Ubuntu from a Windows partition won't work either, but that gives you a "permission denied" error, instead of the "cannot execute binary file" error.

**assaf2** · February 22nd, 2014

Oh I am sorry for not clearing this out - I am running ubuntu 12.04 on VMWARE as a terminal on windows 8.1 64 BIT.

**steeldriver** · February 22nd, 2014

Drop the -c flag - it stops compilation short (at the object file stage) rather than linking with the standard libraries necessary to create an actual executable

Code:

gcc -ansi -Wall first.c -o myprog

From man gcc

Code:

       -c  Compile or assemble the source files, but do not link.  The linking
           stage simply is not done.  The ultimate output is in the form of an
           object file for each source file.