Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:44:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Andy Juell <kudeita AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP newbie goof...what did I do wrong?
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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Andy Juell wrote:

> c:\djgpp\bin\ld.exe: cannot open -lstdcxx: No such file or directory 
> (ENOENT)
> 
> I unzipped ALL the files in the appropriate distribution, and found
> no file by that name, so I'm really not sure what it is I'm missing.

You are missing the explanations in section 8.7 of the FAQ.  The
argument -lstdcxx passed to the linker instructs it to look for a
library libstdcxx.a in the C:\DJGPP\LIB directory.  If this file is
not found, the linker then falls back to looking for a file -lstdcxx
verbatim (since such file names are possible), which also fails.

But the real problem is that it cannot find libstdcxx.a; section 8.7
explains how to fix that.