Though you can write "C" code in Notepad, you must have a C compiler, such as the compiler included with the Microsoft Visual Studio development suite, to compile the code. To write a C code file ...

I am going to show you how to compile a C++ program on Linux. I’ll demonstrate it on Ubuntu Desktop 23.04, I’ll use the tried and true Hello, World! app as an example.

The compiler takes our C code and turns it into a file that can be written to the microcontroller. The ins and outs of a compiler get a bit hairy and this isn’t the time to explain those details.

For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice. As the post acknowledges, it's not a comprehensive ...