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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:47:02 -0700
From:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	John Burch <john2004 AT bga DOT com>
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: lib iostr not found problem
References:	<3587f7a1 DOT 0 AT feed1 DOT realtime DOT net>

> John Burch wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this is reposted, I don't see the original showing up in ng.
> 
> Hi,
> I am just setting up DJGPP and many support programs. Allego compiled
> ok, and a few other simple programs including my own. But some of the
> downloads like degui ( a GUI program for DJGPP) will not compile
> because the compiler can not find libiostr.a   . It is not on my
> system.
> 
> Is this a shorterned form of the library  iostream  ?  Those files
> iostream and iostream.h are present but not as a library.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what download contains or is required to generate
> this library?  iostr
> 
> I have looked in every FAQ file and readme file I know of, but I may
> have just missed it anyway.

libiostr has been obsoleted with GCC 2.8.x.  You should link libstdcxx.a
instead (so an option like `-liostr' should change to `-lstdcxx').

If you can't change that, you might, as a horrible ugly workaround, copy
lib\libstdcxx.a to lib\libiostr.a.

By the way, please don't post in HTML.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

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