From: Andris <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Uwe Homm <uhomm AT gmx DOT de>
Subject: Re: DJGPP/RHIDE on W2K
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:12:43 +0300
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Viestissä Maanantai 09 Syyskuu 2002 19:52, Uwe Homm kirjoitti:
> Hi NG,
>
> i installed the above mentioned components and then i built the typical
> "Hello, world".
>
> I got some errors and i cannot interpret them. The compiler tells me
> something about backward-warnings in the file iostream.h which i
> included
>
> So i read somewhere around in the textfiles and i found that i should
> replace
>
> #include <iostream.h>
>
> with
>
> #include <iostream>
>
> Ok. But now i get the message that cout is undeclared. :(((

It's in std namespace. Get some recent book about C++

>
> If i set the compiler-option with "-Wno-deprecated" (told in iostream.h
> as workaround) it works fine. But the EXE is pretty big.
>
> My Hello.exe has a size of about 1.450KB. Using stdio and printf
> produces an EXE of about 95KB.

Use of C++ stdandard library causes a lot of debug information to be included.
You can try to strip executable if You want and get smaller executables.
Also try getting some executables packer (for example UPX)

Andris