Sublime text linux gcc build for simple C programs

I want to build programs in the inbuilt build command of sublime text 2

I've made a gcc.sublime-build file with

{
"cmd" : ["gcc", "$file_name", "-o", "${file_base_name}"],
"selector" : "source.c",
"shell":true,
"working_dir" : "$file_path"
}

but all i get is an error saying

gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. [Finished in 0.0s with exit code 4]

any ideas

Can you compile C in sublime?

You can build/compile in Sublime Editor, but you can't run it on Sublime Editor. You can run it through terminal. Here is how we can do it. Open Sublime Editor, write a program and save it with .

Sublime Text is executing gcc without parameters because "shell": true means that the value of "cmd" is passed to a shell, and it should be one string. In your file it appears that you want to pass parameters directly to GCC, so you should set "shell" to false.