Cello World

Here is a quick tutorial in building your first Cello program. To start open up a text editor and create a new file called cello_world.c. Type in the following:

#include "Cello.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  println("Cello World!");
  return 1;
}

You should be able to compile this with something like the following command

$ gcc -std=gnu99 cello_world.c -lCello -o cello_world

On Linux you might need to link some additional libraries

$ gcc -std=gnu99 cello_world.c -lCello -lm -lpthread -o cello_world

On Windows you might need to link to the DbgHelp library.

$ gcc -std=gnu99 cello_world.c -lCello -lDbgHelp -o cello_world

Or if the DbgHelp library can't be found then it's likely that Cello has compiled without stack trace support. In this case you should use the -DCELLO_NSTRACE flag instead.

$ gcc -std=gnu99 cello_world.c -lCello -DCELLO_NSTRACE -o cello_world

This should create a program called cello_world you can then execute

$ ./cello_world
  Cello World!

If you have errors:

You should double check you have installed the library correctly.
You may need to run ldconfig to refresh your library cache.
You must make sure the flags you compile with are the same as the ones used to compile Cello itself. If you are unsure what these were you can run make examples in the Cello source directory and see what flags it uses in that case.

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