From: wtanksle AT dolphin DOT openprojects DOT net (William Tanksley) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Now I'm REally confused... References: <7m0c07$n1b$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.3 (UNIX) Lines: 30 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:01:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.4.83.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news.rdc1.sdca.home.com 931388465 24.4.83.145 (Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:01:05 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:01:05 PDT Organization: @Home Network To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 20:06:41 GMT, kormt_sereg AT my-deja DOT com wrote: >OK, so I can write the source code on a simple text editor like notepad. >I did the code for hello.cpp and named it just that. Now to turn it into >an .obj You're okay so far, although I wonder where you saved hello.cpp. In what directory? >I right click on gxx.exe and goto the command line Pardon, I don't understand. What does right clicking gxx.exe have to do with the command line? >and put >gcc -c -Wall hello.cpp or so it says in readme1st. I did this and it >didn't work. And I thought I was so close. :( Can you tell us what you mean by "it didn't work."? Did it give any message? Did it churn for a while, then give you back a command prompt without displaying a message? >Maybe I'm just nbot putting in the right command on the command line? Your command looks correct, although I'm at a loss to guess why it didn't work when I don't know what message the computer gave to you. >Kormt -- -William "Billy" Tanksley