help please!

[LLeweLLyn Reese]

Sarah Gosselin <sunflower564@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi!
> I am a student in programing and I am used to work in a Sun lab
> (using Unix). I write programs in C++. At school, I go in the console
> (or terminal) and type g++ nameofprogram.cc and it compiles it.
> However, I have no idea what to do with my iMac (I have the Mac OS
> X). I went into the terminal and tried typing all the possible
> entries and nothing worked so far. So please, could you tell me how
> it works and also how to save my documents so that they get read as
> C++ (or G++) documents.
> Thank you for your time

Probably you do not have gcc installed on your imac. I've never used
MacOS X - but it appears there is some info here:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/compilers.html
I found the above link by searching using google's advanced search to
search www.apple.com for for getting started gcc .

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