Thread: Compiling in windows

I'd like to point out that "gcc -c" will compile to object file, and it will "do the right thing" if your file is called .cpp for example, and compile it as C++. The -x option is only meaningful when the extension is "wrong" - e.g. someone copied a load of .C files to a machine which doesn't make a distinction between .c and .C (the latter is a C++ file in Unix/linux-land) - then instead of renaming all the files to .cpp, you could use "gcc -x C++" (or whatever the syntax is).

However, when building the final executable, g++, as Laserlight hints, will include the C++ standard library, as well as the C standard library. gcc will only include the C standard library - if you have C++ code that uses the C++ standard library [and it may well do that even if you didn't think so, since a fair amount of C++ "behind the scenes" are solved by linking to the library functions - for example constructors/destructors for global variables are handled by the C++ library, as well as some of the handling of exceptions.

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