X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:53:57 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gcc does not know about "new" and "delete" Message-ID: <20070922035357.GA25395@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <46F40C47.3040005@research.telcordia.com> <46F4741F.80108@pacific.net.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:29:53AM +0200, Markus E L wrote: >Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Framk gave you the answer. > >Was the right answer ... > >> gcc is a plain c compiler. > >... but this is wrong. Gcc determines from the file suffic which language >applies > > .cpp -> c++ > .c -> C > >and so on. > >Calling it as g++ vs. calling it as gcc though determines which >runtimes are linked automatically (and partly which include paths are >set). > > gcc -o x x.cpp -lstdc++ > >works perfectly with the OPs program. That may be but it isn't guaranteed to work perfectly with every single C++ program out there. There are potentially other libraries which might be required for C++. You really should use g++ to link C++ programs. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/