From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: String
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:47:17 -0600
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"Chapman, Ian [CAR:TM14:EXCH]" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>     I'd like to use the String objects which are part of cpp and
> libgpp.a.  The line ***String x = "abcdetc";*** compiles fine.

Is there a reason that you cannot use the ANSI standard C++ string
classes?  My understanding is that libg++ is no longer supported in
later versions of GCC.

> The
> Linker is undefined reference to String::String(char const *).  I
> figured I'd got incompatible versions of the various files.  I have
> gcc 2.81    119,808   June 6-98
> libgpp.a    394,290   June 6-98
> ld 2.8.1     316,982   July 16-97  To get the version I used --version
> flag.
> 
>     So I figured ld.exe was too old and since I have bnu281.b.zip I
> logged into a mirror and determined that the latest bnu was still 281 so
> I pulled it over anyway.  The ld.exe is now 317,440 bytes and Dec
> 31-97.  When I ran "ld --version" it tells me "version id - GNU
> sh-utilities 1.12" which is a wee bit different considering it came from
> a zip file of the same name.  So I'm a bit confused there.
> 
>     In any case the bottom line is the linker is still not able to link
> to the class String.  What can I do now?
> 
>        I've also looked in the mail archives and found that this
> question has been asked before but I could not find a reply offering
> more than what I've done.
> 
>         Thank to all of you for the great help in the past.
> 
>                     Regards Ian.

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