How to Compile C++ programs

[Devin Whalen]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:05:23PM -0300, Devin Whalen wrote:
> > I am trying to do some C++ programing on Linux, unfortunately I am
> > having trouble compiling my "hello world" scripts.  AFAIK, I just have
> > to type g++ fill.cc and it will compile...but I don't seem to have g++
> > installed.  I thought it is part of the gcc package but I already have
> > that installed.  I am running Mandrake 10.1 and I like to just use urpmi
> > to install any programs.  If I type urpmi -a g++  I get the message "no
> > package named g++" and if I try urpmi -a gcc, I get the message
> > "everything is installed".  I just got the book Essential C++ and I want
> > to learn it over the weekend...but it will be difficult if I can't get
> > my code to run :).  What am I missing?
> > 
> > Also, does anyone know some good Linux Programming books for C++ and/or
> > C?  Also, what about a good editor.  I am thinking along the lines of
> > Visual C++ for Windows.  I plan do to most of it just in vi, but just in
> > case I get into more complicated projects it might be nice to have a
> > program to help with that.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help.
> 
> Well on debian gcc comes from a package like gcc-2.95 or gcc-3.3 and g++
> comes from g++-2.95 or g++-3.3 or similar.  They are often packaged
> seperately due to the enormous size of c++ support and that gcc works
> fine without g++.
> 
> I have no idea what name mandrake would have given the package.  Could
> be gcc-g++ or gcc-c++ or g++ or g++-version or anything else along those
> lines.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
> --


Thank you Lennart!  It was gcc-g++.  So all I had to do was urpmi -a
gcc-g++ and everything installed fine and now I can compile my little C+
+ programs.  Now I can start learning.

Later

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