I think it isn't clear for a lot of newbies that there isn't a "working default" setting in the IDE...
Hi Ralf...
That's why I started by suggesting he cruize the help file. There is a "My first project" tutorial in there that I though he'd find helpful...
Help -> Contents -> POIDE Integrated Environment -> Your First Project : Hello World.
Way back when I first started with Pelles C, it took me a few passes (and some very interesting language) to get that first project to work... Of course once I plowed through the wizard a couple of times it started making sense...
It seems likely he's set it up to build a DLL or LIB...