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ElShifty wrote:
> 
> "Jesper Lund" <jl1204 AT worldonline DOT dk> wrote in message
> news:zhJ18.1497$XA5 DOT 176148 AT news000 DOT worldonline DOT dk...
> > > OK... Here's is what I have done so far. I downloaded all the
> > > basic stuff for DJGPP. I followed all the instructions
> > > correctly. Now all I want to do is just write .CPP files in
> > > notepad and compile them as executables. How would I go about
> > > using GCC.exe to simply compile a .cpp file into a basic .exe?
> > > I am only using standard libraries (i.e. iostream, string, etc).
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Read the file readme.1st (which is in your root DJGPP directory).
> 
> Ok I read all of the readme file and I see that it says nothing of
> how to compile C++ source code to an executable. So I tried what
> it said for C code which was "gcc myfile.c -o myfile.exe -lm". So
> I tried "gcc mycppsource.cpp -o cppexe.exe -lm". It then displayed
> A LOT of errors about undefined references. I tried it with very
> simple source and am stumped as to why it doesn't work. The code I
> tried was:
> 
> #include <iostream>
> using namespace std;
> 
> int main()
> {
>  cout << "Hello, World!\n";
>  return 0;
> }

Try "info gxx".  g++ is an illegal filename under DOS.  Use the
extension cpp for C++ sources.

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