Borland Troubles with Following Your Tutorial

Well I'm a brand spanking n00bie with C++; I unwrapped the Borland C++ Builder for Windows 95 & Windows NT yesterday, and started toying around with it today.

Everything in the package looked downright Greek to me other than the Help Tutorial, so I looked up this site to get a simpler explanation. And of ALL the places to get stuck, I get stuck on the first simple cut/paste code for the "HELLO world!" message.

I tried copy/pasting the code along with other lines already shown and got some errors. I tried copy/pasting the code by itself and got some errors. I even followed Borland's included tutorial of making a fish report... I mean, a FISH REPORT! ...and obviously that didn't help me either.

What exactly are the errors you are getting???

When I put in the bare-bones code:

Quote:

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#include <iostream.h>
int main()
{
cout<<"HEY, you, I'm alive! Oh, and Hello World!";
return 0;
}

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[Linker Error] Undefined symbol_Form1 referenced from "so-and-so-save.obj."
[Linker Error] Undefined symbol TForm1:: referenced from "so-and-so-save.obj."


I also tried pasting it under the code that's already included when a new application is made, and it ran with no errors:

Quote:

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//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <vcl\vcl.h>
#pragma hdrstop

#include "Unit1.h"
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#pragma resource "*.dfm"
TForm1 *Form1;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
__fastcall TForm1::TForm1(TComponent* Owner)
: TForm(Owner)
{
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <iostream.h>
int main()
{
cout<<"HEY, you, I'm alive! Oh, and Hello World!";
return 0;
}

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But now all that comes up is a blank form. I'm guessing I have to make something out of the form to show what's happening, but I don't know how.

Try creating a new project. Then enter the hello world program in that new project:

Code:

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#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(){
      cout<<"Hello World!"<<endl;
      cin.get();
      return(0);
}

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If you recieve an error on unidentified external cout(or something like that) replace

Code:

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#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

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with

Code:

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#include<iostream.h>

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Post any errors you may get from this.

When creating a new project for your hello world application, create a console project.

You are creating a windows project when that example is for a console one.