Thread: I need help with my compiler

I just got the Dev-C++ and I am tyring to make a simple program, but when I put in the code and I compile it, it always says, "unable to run program"

Here's the code:

Code:

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

CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT!?!

try using the up to date headers and namespaces.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

if that doesn't work then there is something wrong with the installation or one of the project/environment/options settings is off.

I don't use Dev-C++, but the error says that the compiler is not running, so I suspect you're right, you are having a compiler problem. I don't think it has anything to do with your code. You're trying to run the compiler to compile (process) your source file.

I've used a handful of different compilers, and I don't think any of them ever worked on the first try... so don't give-up yet... Dev-C++ is very popular, so you know it can work!

All I can suggest is that you carefully read all to installation / configuration documentation files. Maybe the compiler isn't installed in the usual default location and the IDE can't find it???
Maybe something in this tutorial will help ???

hey elad, when you said

>#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

what do you mean? im not that good with c++and wen i put my code, i had just copied so i dont know what you're saying. please help

Originally posted by DougDbug
Briefly, the dot-h header files are "depreciated". This means that they are outdated, but still supported for compatablity. Your program should still compile with the .h syntax, but you might have to set a compiler option.

I think you mean deprecated rather than depreciated. Note that <iostream.h> is not a deprecated header, it's simply non-standard. It existed before the C++ standard, was used in (probably) millions of C++ programs, and is retained by many compilers for reasons of backwards compatibility. A conforming C++ compiler isn't required to provide it, and you can't rely on one compiler's <iostream.h> exactly matching that on another compiler.

Header files that are deprecated are the older C library headers, e.g. <time.h>, <stdio.h> etc. They are included in the C++ standard, so you can rely on your C++ compiler providing them, and rely on them providing the contents required by the standard. However, by making use of them deprecated the standard is saying that support for them is not guaranteed in future revisions of the standard. That's why new development should be written using the versions introduced by the C++ library, e.g. <ctime> and <cstdio>.