Re: Embarassing question on linking

["James M. J. Cassidy" <jcassidy at stratos dot net>]

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Allan Peda wrote:

> I am learning C++ using cygwin32, so I am not too well versed in these
> unix type utilities (previous experience with IDE based products).
> 
> I'll cut to the chase..  hello world based C++ program yields the
> following:
> 
> The code:
> 
> bash$ cat hellopp.cc
> #include <iostream.h>
> 
> main()
> {
>         cout << "Hello there GNU++ world!\n";
> }
> bash$
> 
> The error:
> 
> bash$ make -f hellopp.mak
> /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/gcc.exe -pedantic -o hellopp.exe
> hellopp.cc

   Add '-lg++' to the line above

> C:\TEMP\cc0010051.o(.text+0x2a):hellopp.cc: undefined reference to
> `cout'
> C:\TEMP\cc0010051.o(.text+0x2f):hellopp.cc: undefined reference to
> `ostream::ope
> rator<<(char const *)'
> gcc.exe: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 1
> make: *** [hellopp.exe] Error 1
> 
> Now under hello.c, I have no errors,  I'm guessing that I need to do
> something to link the correct libraries which are needed under (G)C++,
> and were included by default under GCC (ansi).
> 
> Thanks
> Allan
> 
> (Yes, I am reading the notes at cygnus, and am looking into
> prep.mit.edu)
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