Trying to learn C++

[Mike Marchywka]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:33:00PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 16:41 -0400, Stephen wrote:
> > With <iostream.h> or <iostream> or with it in quotes I get the same
> > thing.
> > 
> > stephen at DeskTop ~ $ g++ ~/projects/hello.cpp
> > /home/stephen/projects/hello.cpp:2:22: fatal error: "iostream": No
> > such file or directory
> > compilation terminated.
> > stephen at DeskTop ~ $
> 
> I'm not familiar with Mint since I use Ubuntu, but it would surprise me
> if Mint was different in this area than Ubuntu.
> 
> The C++ STL headers are prerequisites of the standard compiler package,
> so it's also surprising to me that you wouldn't have them since you
> have a C++ compiler, unless you installed it via some low-level package
> rather than the standard compiler package.
> 
> All you should have to do to get a full C++ compiler environment based
> on GCC is to run this:
> 
>   $ sudo apt install g++
> 
> and that should depend on (and thus import) all the other packages you
> need to compile C++ code, including the STL headers like iostream.
> 
> That's certainly true on my Ubuntu 18.04 system.

I guess it would not hurt to post the whole program and command line.

Also you may want to try google as it will probably not 
be the last problem. I was just through this because I wanted to
write a script for something like "vihdr xxx" that would edit the
file xxx on the cpp system include path ( I think I finally gave up
on that though and just went through my defined path  ) and found stuff like this, 


https://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art026

cpp -v < /dev/null
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=cpp
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.11' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-5/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-5 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.11) 
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-E' '-v' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64'
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/cc1 -E -quiet -v -imultiarch x86_64-linux-gnu - -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Wformat-security
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include/x86_64-linux-gnu"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed
 /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu
 /usr/include
End of search list.
# 1 "<stdin>"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h" 1 3 4
# 1 "<command-line>" 2
# 1 "<stdin>"
COMPILER_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../../lib/:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../:/lib/:/usr/lib/
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-E' '-v' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64'



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