site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) Steve wrote: [] and saved as hello.c then I did a cc -o hello hello.c and I got an error so then I tried gcc and I got the same error.......looks like this steve-youngs-mac-pro:sandbox steve$ gcc -o hello hello.c ld: can't open output file for writing: hello, errno=21 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -- Martin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... What am I doing wrong? Looks like you have a directory named "hello", and ld is therefore unable to create a file named "hello". Change one or the other. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com