The answer to your two questions are: 1) g++ is the name of the c++ compiler (it is actually not part of Gnome). 2) g++ program.cpp is the command
The default name of the program compiled with this compiler is a.out. If you want to specify the name of the resulting program you do it like this: g++ -o programname program.cpp On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Michael John Walters < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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