cout not in libg ++ simple hello world does not work ?

["Martin Giguere" <zefrench at hotmail dot com>]

sorry for posting such a newbvie question here, but I just finished a 
c++ course suing proprietary tools on win32, and I would now like to 
start programming in linux but I get the following error (which lead be 
to beleive I am missing the std templates but then again what do I know)

Thanks for your time
 here is the error[root@maitre dump]# egcs -o bit bit.cpp
/tmp/cc09NfV8.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cc09NfV8.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `cout'
/tmp/cc09NfV8.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to 
`ostream::operator<<(char const *)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[root@maitre dump]#    

[root@maitre dump]# rpm -qa |grep egcs
egcs-libstdc++-1.1b-1
egcs-g77-1.1b-1
egcs-objc-1.1b-1
egcs-c++-1.1b-1
egcs-1.1b-1
egcs-libstdc++-devel-1.1b-1
[root@maitre dump]# 

redhat 5.1 on i386





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