gcc pathing problem? - resolved

[Ben Miller]

Thanks very much to everyone that helped further my education today.  I must 
have been using significantly outdated reference materials, because yes I was 
using gcc to compile, not g++. I've since learned the error of my ways and I 
apologize for taking the list off-topic. :-)

== Ben

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:14 am, Joel Goguen wrote:
> I'm with Ziyad on this one, what command are you using to compile?  And
> what version of GCC are you using?  Just for curiosity's sake, let us
> know the command you're using to compile your test file and also run
>  g++ --version
> and give only the first line of the resulting output.  It should look
> something like this:
>  g++ (GCC) 4.0.1 20050517 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.0-7ubuntu6~5.04ubp1)
>
> Here's what I did from the first code sample you gave:
> -- Changed '#include <iostream.h>' to '#include <iostream>' since you
> don't need the .h suffix here.
> -- added 'using namespace std;' right under that, to save me from adding
> 'std::' in front of every cout (I'm lazy :) )
> -- compiled using the command 'g++ test.cpp' which compiled using GCC
> 3.3.5
> -- ran the resulting a.out executable
> -- recompiled using 'g++-4.0 test.cpp' and ran that executable
> I got identical outputs for both:
> ----
> The size of an int is:          4bytes
> The size of a short             2bytes
> The size of a long is:          4bytes
> The size of a char is:          1bytes
> The size of a float is:                 4bytes
> The size of a double is:                8bytes
> ----
>
> On Wed, 2005-15-06 at 08:52 -0500, Ben Miller wrote:
> > Thank you for your help and education, Morten, Collin, and Dennis.  Idont
> > mind changing the code, I merely said I hadn't. :-) I also need to look
> > for more modern reference books!
> >
> > As a test I reduced my code to the bare minimum:
> > #include <iostream>
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> >
> >  int x;
> >  return 0;
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > Here's the entire error code I receive:
> > ccgB2MQC.o(.text+0x35): In function
> > `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0
> >
> > (int, int)':
> > : undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init[in-charge]()'
> >
> > /tmp/ccgB2MQC.o(.text+0x66): In function `__tcf_0':
> > : undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init [in-charge]()'
> >
> > /tmp/ccgB2MQC.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to
> > `__gxx_personality_v0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > ben at wheelscribe:~/in_c $ gcc memsize.cpp -o memsize
> > /tmp/cc7cGKSI.o(.text+0x35): In function
> >
> > `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
> > : undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init[in-charge]()'
> >
> > /tmp/cc7cGKSI.o(.text+0x66): In function `__tcf_0':
> > : undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init [in-charge]()'
> >
> > /tmp/cc7cGKSI.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to
> > `__gxx_personality_v0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > Once again, your thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
>
> --
> Joel Goguen
> ITS Student Consultant
> Bachelor of Computer Science III
> University of New Brunswick