How do I run the Program.cs?

Question

mcs Program.cs ... then I need to reference the other .cs files using *.cs somehow?

Answer 1 · 2020-10-11T21:23:36Z

October 11, 2020 9:23pm

Here is what you should be running:

mcs *.cs -out:Program.exe && mono Program.exe

I'll break it down:

mcs: The compiler that we are using, by executing this command and providing it with a file/glob/files we are able to compile the result.
*.cs: A glob that says that we are going to get any file that ends in .cs basically all the C# files in our folder.
-out:Program.exe: An optional command that specifies what we are going to call our output file. In this case: Program.exe. 4.&&: Tells us to chain together another additional command
mono Program.exe: Mono is how we execute a C# executable, we just have to provide it with said executable. In this case the newly created Program.exe.

Answer 2 · 2020-10-12T00:20:18Z

October 12, 2020 12:20am

Thank you Dane Parchment!

So, mcs is the name of the Treehouse's complier?

And, -out:Program.exe converts the Program.cs file to a executable file?

Then we run with mono.

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