Microsoft Visual Studio 2017非常需要基本帮助：“系统找不到指定的文件”

Question

I'm doing an Introduction to C Programming course at the moment, only just started, and I am running into an issue I just can't get around. The course instructor is no help, and I know the issue is extremely basic, but every solution I find online assumes good working knowledge of the software. I don't have that, not yet anyway.

I'm simply trying to run the following code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("Hello");
    getch();
    return 0;
}

This is, I believe, supposed to display "Hello" on the screen when I run it. But when I press F5 to debug I get the following message:

"Unable to start program. '[file path].Project1.exe' The system cannot find the file specified."

So there needs to be a .exe file there, but how do I make one? I've searched through many other answers to similar issues across the web, but all of them make reference to things I simply don't understand yet, so I'm asking here for a layman's explanation of how to resolve this.

Thanks so much to anyone who can help.

Answer 1

In your output window you are currently seeing that message in the Debug , right? You need to change that to Build or (I prefer) Build Order (which keeps the multi-threaded items in a sensible order for output). This will show you why your program didn't build - hence you have no "exe" to run.