From: "Steve Flanagan" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: HELP !!!! New Programmer Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 22:04:10 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Message-ID: <7o7lg5$5ju$1@newsreader1.core.theplanet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem70.skinner.kingston-internet.net X-Trace: newsreader1.core.theplanet.net 933714245 5758 195.92.235.70 (3 Aug 1999 21:04:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 1999 21:04:05 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Lines: 35 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Reply to steve AT flanagan DOT karoo DOT co DOT uk please ... or post replies here ... Any assistance ANYONE can offer me would be greatly appreciated and I hope this matter is not too trivial. I am a very green and uninitiated C++ programmer and would welcome some advice on the following problem I am having. I recently purchased Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 hours which came with DJGPP on an accompanying CD . I assume that, since I followed the installation instructions, I have all the necessary modules on my hard disk. After creating a .cpp file extension, and typing in the required code for Lesson 1 ( Hello World ), i managed to get to grips with the syntax for running the compiler. At the DOS prompt I typed gxx s.cpp -o hw.exe. ( S being the name I gave the text file and HW the name for the executable ). The compiler then returned the following error message :- In file included from s.cpp:1: c:/djgpp/lang/cxx/iostream.h:31: streambuf.h : No such file or directory ENOENT ) Using find files, the file streambuf.h is located in c:\djgpp\lang\cxx and also in the Chapter 1 folder of the exercise directory in the Sams folder. I am executing gxx in a dos prompt under windows. Should I do this in a pure DOS session?? Also the s.cpp file is located on my desktop. Should this be in the folder where streambuf.h and iostream.h lie ?? I look forward to having my problems solved soon so I can call myself a fellow programmer ... .we ALL have to start somewhere .... Thanks to all in advance.... STEVE