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From: rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ)
Subject: Re: can't compile c++
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:09:02 GMT
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Chris A. Rodgers (car AT wwa DOT com) wrote:
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: I tried to compile the following source code (myfirst.cpp):

: // myfirst.cpp--displays a message
: #include <iostream.h>	// a PREPROCESSOR directive
: int main(void)
: {
: 	cout << "Come up and C++ me some time.";
: 	cout << "\n";
: 	return 0;
: }

: This is the result of compilation:

: E:\DJGPP\SRC\cis_230\testbed1>gcc -v myfirst.cpp
: Reading specs from e:/djgpp/lib\specs
: gcc version 2.6.3
:  e:/djgpp/bin\cpp.exe -lang-c++ -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUG__=2 -D__cplusplu
: s -D__GNUC_MINOR__=6 -Dunix -Di386 -DGO32 -DMSDOS -D__unix__ -D__i386__ -D__GO32
: __ -D__MSDOS__ -D__unix -D__i386 -D__GO32 -D__MSDOS myfirst.cpp e:/djgpp/tmp\cc0
: gcc -lc -lgcc

In my case (I've also been struggling with this) gcc -lgpp worked fine.
no other options required for such a simple program.
  ( After searching for hours I found it in some doc somewhere)

: myfirst.cc(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to `cout'
: myfirst.cc(.text+0x33): undefined reference to `ostream::operator<<(char const *
: )'
: myfirst.cc(.text+0x40): undefined reference to `cout'
: myfirst.cc(.text+0x45): undefined reference to `ostream::operator<<(char const *
: )'