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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Errors in #include files when compiling a Legacy C++ Application
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:39:50 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Brian K. Whatcott
>Sent: 28 March 2005 17:52

> I am forwarding this reply and the simpler example on to the mailing list.
> The attached files are:
> 
> 	hello.cc		- Hello world that writes to a file, instead
> of cout.
> 	command.txt		- The compile command.
> 	hello_errors.txt	- File with the errors from the compile.
> 	cygcheck.out	- The cycheck output file.
> 
> All files are straight text (probably with Unix/Linux end of lines).


  Removing that bogus "-I/usr/include/machine" option helps.  Don't try to
second-guess the compiler!  It knows perfectly well where to find all the
system header files, and if you start needlessly adding -I options just
because you think it "looks right", you'll only go and mess up its
very-carefully arranged search path.  The -I option should only ever be used
to add the path(s) to *your* header files from your app, and the occasional
library files (such as the X11R6 files), and never for system/compiler
includes.

  After that you're just left with the error where you've typo'd 'oftream',
which AFAIK is not any kind of C++ object, and the fact that you're trying
to #include "strstream.h", which was deprecated and does not exist any more,
and the fact that you aren't using ostream correctly, since (at least as far
as I can see from a quick google) it doesn't construct from a string but
from a reference to a streambuf-derived class object, but those are all
general c++ programming errors that are not related to cygwin, and that I
can't really advise on, because I don't know much about STL.


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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