[UbuntuWomen] Hello World

[Sébastien Nicouleaud]

Hello Zuhdi,

GCC stands for both the "GNU Compiler Collection" and the "GNU C
Compiler".

As a compiler collection, it supports various programming languages (C,
C++, Java, Fortran, Ada...), and for each of them, it provides a
language specific "front-end":
- gcc, as in "GNU C Compiler".
- g++, the GNU C++ compiler.
- gcj, the GNU Java compiler.
- g77, the GNU Fortran 77 compiler.
- gnat, the GNU Ada compiler.

So, when calling the gcc command, you're running the GNU C compiler, not
some language-independant compiler (such a command doesn't exist).

The GCC website explains this (far better than me), if you're
interested :)

The GCC website:
http://gcc.gnu.org/

The manual introduction for gcc 4.1.1:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/G_002b_002b-and-GCC.html#G_002b_002b-and-GCC

Regards,

Seb

Le mercredi 28 juin 2006 à 22:57 +0800, Zuhdi Najib a écrit :
> hello ladies,
> 
> I was wandering, to compile in c++ we have to use g++, why cant we use
> gcc ? when I tried to compile my hello world program using the command
> "gcc hello.cpp", it spits out some error, but nothing wrong when im
> using g++ command. 
> 
>