Creating a New Program Using Pelles C
ET283 Microprocessor Fundamentals
1. From the initial start page, select “Start a new Project”.
2. A dialog box will pop up with a bunch of different project types. Ordinarily we’ll want “console” or
command-line style applications (not Windows GUI, libraries or other types). Choose either Win64
Console or Win32 Console depending on your operating system.
3. Give the project an appropriate name. Also make sure that you navigate to the desired location for
the project files (in the Location slot below the Name slot). Pelles C will create a new folder/directory at
this location which will contain all the files for the project. On the college network, you’ll probably want
to create a master directory for Pelles C on your account on the network H: drive. All projects would
then be found as folders in this master folder. Remember, a project includes C language source files,
header files, object files, the output file or executable (.exe) and possibly other files.
4. Once these are set, click the OK button at the bottom right corner. You will now see a project pane on
the right that includes a little icon with the name of your project. This project is empty so we’ll need to
add files to it.
5. Select New->Source Code from the File menu. You will now have a blank edit window. Type in the
code needed. Note that the editor uses color-coded syntax highlighting. Also, many aspects of the
editor, such as font size and color, can be altered via the Tools->Options... menu. When you’re done,
select Save As from the File menu.
6. Give the source file an appropriate name. Make sure that it ends with a “.c” extension, as in “test.c”.
Note that by default this will be saved in the project folder created moments ago. Select Save.
7. You will be asked if you want to include this file into the current project. Answer Yes.
8. If you now look at the project pane off to the right, you’ll see that under the project icon there will be
a tab for Source files and below this will be the C source file you just created. Repeat steps 5 through 7 if
more source files are needed (typically this will not be the case in this course).
9. Select Project->Build from the menu (or use the Build icon). The output pane will indicate any errors
or warnings. If there are problems, go back to the source code and edit as required. Resave the code and
rebuild until the result is error-free.
10. Select Project->Execute to run the program. A console window will pop up and your program will
start to execute.
11. If the program doesn’t work correctly, edit the source until it does!