Hello All, I know that I have a C compiler on my system because I wrote a simple C programme called csimple.c and used the command, gcc csimple.c -o csimple.o and got the object code file csimple.o and when I did the command ./csimple.o the programme worked beautifully giving me exactly the result I wanted.
However, when I tried to compile a simple C++ program with gcc I got a number of compilation errors indicating that the gcc compiler is not also a C++ compiler. I was wondering what the C++ compiler is called and whether it is easy to install. If I knew the name of the C++ compiler I could even do an aptitude search <C++ compiler> where <C++ compiler> is the correct name of the C++ compiler and I could find out whether it is on my system or not. If it is on my system but not yet installed, it should be easy to install. I would like to install the C++ compiler so that I could go through a C++ programming book that my brother gave me. I see that the book my brother gave me has a lot of programmes I want to write given as examples. I would then modify my programmes to do exactly what I want, And the changes from the examples in the book are very minor. The book my brother gave me is "How to think like a computer scientist" by Allen B. Downey C++ Version, First Edition. So the two things I would like to find out are "What is the name of the gnome C++ compiler?" and "What is the command to compile a C++ program?" Once my C++ program called cplusplussimple.cpp is compiled successfully as an object code file called cplusplussimple.o the command ./cplusplusimple.o should run it, if I am not mistaken. Please comment on my ramblings. Regards, Michael Walters - tier two member _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
