From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net> wrote in message
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>
> #include <iostream.h>
>
> int main (void);
>  {
>       cout <<"Hello world!\n";
>  }
>
> I believe this declares the main function in the correct way . However, when I
tru
> to compile it this does not create an hello.o program as it should. I get: :
>
> C:\djgpp>gcc -c -Wall hello.cpp
> hello.cpp:4: parse error before `{'
>
>  What am I missing now ?

Remove the ; from after int main(void).

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