My C "Hello, world!" program isn't compiling

Question

I wanted to learn C, so I decided to start a C project and try out the canonical "Hello, world." program in Visual Studio.

So I put this code in

#import <stdio.h>

main()
{
    printf("Hello, world!");
}

and got three errors:

IntelliSense: cannot open source file "C:/.../stdio.tlh"
IntelliSense: identifier "printf" is undefined
IntelliSense: PCH warning: cannot find a suitable header stop location. An intellisense PCH file was not generated.

Apparently I'm setting up my project wrong or I don't have the header files I need or something like that.

I'm sure this seems like a really basic problem, but I haven't really used C before so I'm stuck and don't know what to do. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it?

Answer 1

#import should be #include .

Answer 2

It's not #import , it's #include .

Answer 3

You should use #include instead of #import

Answer 4

Couple of points that others have not pointed out:

1. main() should return int
2. Your string literal argument to printf should have a new line.