From: G Jaye <garyj AT asan DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: getting gcc to work with C++ classes
Date: 26 Aug 1999 23:47:01 -0500
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I'm a teacher and many of my C++ students will have Win98 systems. To
that end, I just installed GNU's package (using its Win 9x hard disk
installation program) on my Win98 system's E drive, and everything seems
pretty well-behaved except the C++ aspect of the DJGPP gcc compiler, ver
2.7.2. (C works just fine!) Consider the statement below, given the
directive #include <iostream.h> and source file extensions cc, cpp, and
cxx (I tried all 3).

   cout << "Hello world\n";

The 2 error messages this produces are:
1. undefined reference to 'cout'
2. undefined reference to 'ostream::operator<<(chr const *)

Clearly iostream.h is being found or the 2 error messages wouldn't
occur. Yet it doesn't seem to do any good. The only copy of iostream.h
is in the E:\fsf\lang\cxx directory. Attempts to use the C++ string
class declared in <string> fare no better. Am I better off re-installing
from the DJGPP web site or elsewhere? Hoping somebody can get tell me
how to resolve this before Sept 9!!!Thanks...

gary jaye