How to write and run a "hello world" program using the command-line compiler: You need to be in a working directory where you have write permission (and about 90 meg free disk space); create a file hello_world.e with a text editor containing the following code: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hello_world.e: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class HELLO_WORLD create make feature make do print("Hello generic world!") io.read_line end end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To compile, run: ec hello_world.e This will create a binary hello_world in a EIFGENs/hello_world/W_code subdirectory that can be run from the command line: cd EIFGENs/hello/W_code ./hello_world You can also create a portable standalone binary (that will be much smaller than the one above) in an EIFGENs/hello_world/F_code subdirectory (after compiling as above to create file hello_world.ecf) as follows: ec -c_compile -finalize -config hello_world.ecf