GCC newbie compile question

crisponions · 07-08-2004, 04:47 PM

This is probably a really easy question , but for the life of me I cannot find the answer. I am in the process of teaching myself c++ and I have reached the point in my book where we are creating custom header files etc. How do I compile these? e.g I have sales1.h, sales1.cpp and myProgram.cpp what is the syntax to compile this from the command line. Thanks

itsme86 · 07-08-2004, 05:00 PM

g++ sales1.cpp myProgram.cpp -o runme

One or both of sales1.cpp or myProgram.cpp should have: #include "sales1.h".

'runme' can be called whatever. It's the finished, linked binary that will be produced.

Komakino · 07-08-2004, 07:16 PM

You don't compile the header files (I'm sure you knew that) and if sales.cpp is supposed to be a library that you could use with multiple programs you can compile it to object:
gcc -c sales.cc -o sales.o

and then do

gcc sales.o myprogram.cc -o myprogram

but what the guy above said is fine also.