Basic install problem.

[Andreas Tobler]

Robert Jones wrote:
> Thousands of people must have done this successfully - but it seems I can't!
> 
> Just installed Cygwin including gcc on Windows XP, taking all the defaults.
> 
> #include <iostream>
> 
> int main( )
>  {
>     std::cout << "Hello" << std::endl;
>  }
> 
> $ gcc hello.cpp
> 
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ROBJON~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccr1lzvF.o:hello.cpp:(.text+0xd):
> undefined reference to `std::basic_string<
> char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::size() const'
>  /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ROBJON~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccr1lzvF.o:hello.cpp:(.text+0x60):
> undefined reference to `std::basic_string
>  <char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>
>> ::operator[](unsigned int) const'
> 
> What am I doing wrong guys?

Use the c++ compiler.

g++ hello.cpp

Andreas