Thread: first program in *nix

Edit: Ok, so I should have been using g++ instead of gcc for the .cpp file. That's settled. New question though, how do I link files that I have included? Say if I write a program and I want to include curses.h, how do I compile that?

Everything below this is the original question.



Hi all. Up until this point I've always written and compiled my programs in Windows. I got a Macbook Pro a couple of months ago, and figure it's time to start programming in Unix. I'm not very advanced in terminal, so it took me a bit of time to try to even get to the proper directory. I finally got the commands correct to compile but I got errors on everything, including a hello world program!


Every time I try to compile something I get this:

Code:

/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:

And a bunch of stuff depending on what I'm trying to compile

for

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
    cout << "Hello World" << endl;
    return 0;
}

I get this in the terminal:

Code:

current directory$ gcc -o helloworld helloworld.cpp
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& (*)(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&))
std::ios_base::Init::Init()
std::ios_base::Init::~Init()
std::cout
std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::endl<char, std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&)
std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::operator<< <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)
___gxx_personality_v0
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I have no idea what most of this means. Is there a reason why such a simple program won't compile? I know it's probably something stupidly simple, but as I've never worked in this environment before, it's totally beyond me.

If anybody can offer some advice, or show me a good starters guide to writing/compiling c/c++ in *nix, that be great.

Thanks so much.

Ed

g++ prog.cpp -lcurses

Code:

g++ -I../includes../gui -o helloworld helloworld.cpp -lcurses

ssharish

Do nothing with the custom header files, leave them as they are, don't attempt to compile them seperatly (ie just leave the compiler switches as they are).

You may also want to turn up the warning level and stuff, do a man gcc

You don't need to specify -I, because you explicitly define the directory where the headers are.

Originally Posted by man gcc

-I dir
Add the directory dir to the list of directories to be
searched for header files. Directories named by -I are
searched before the standard system include directories.
If the directory dir is a standard system include
directory, the option is ignored to ensure that the
default search order for system directories and the
special treatment of system headers are not defeated .