Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 10:01:07 EST
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT ctron DOT com>
To: russ AT pta DOT pyramid DOT com DOT au
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: C compiles, C++ doesnt

>From: Russell Day <russ AT pta DOT pyramid DOT com DOT au>
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 22:32:28 +1000
>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
>DJ-Mail-Sort: djgpp@, djgpp

>Stop me if you've heard this before...
>I have just installed gcc on my girlfriend's machine, and it compiles C
>programs very nicely.  However, when I try to compile a small c++
>program, this happens:

>Bad command or file name
>Can't open c:/tmp/cc000088.s for readingfile not found.
>c:/lang/cpp/lib/crt0.o: Undefined symbol _main referenced from text
>segment

>The directory \tmp exists, and is named in the TMPDIR environment variable.
>The autoexec.bat file contains everything mentioned in the readme.txt file
>with djcpp except that the compiler lives in a directory called \lang\cpp.

>I looked in the faq packed with the compiler, and this isnt there.
>Any hints?

You didn't install the C++ front end, which is in djgpo222.zip.
Common mistake - maybe I should make it give better error messages.

DJ