Migrating from gcc 2.96 to 3.3.3

Hi,

I am facing problem while migrating an application from gcc 2.96 to gcc 3.3.3. The application was previously compiled on RedHat AS 2.1 and now I am compiling on Suse 9.1.

The program is something like this.

#include <string>

main()
{
string tmpString;
...................
}

It is compiling properly on RedHat AS 2.1 using gcc 2.96. On Suse 9.1 using gcc 3.3.3, it gives the following error.

error: 'string'undeclared (first use this function)
error: (Each undelcared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
error: syntax error before ';' token

Is there big difference between gcc 2.96 and 2.96. If I use 'using namespace std', I am able to resolve the compilation problem, but encounter the undefined reference linker error for std::basic_string.

Please let me know how do we solve this problem. Also, it will be helpful if you can point to any document for migrating from gcc 2.96 to 3.3.3.

Thanks & Regards
Prakash

First off, if it is c++ (as it appears to be), you should use namespace std;. You should also compile using g++ which should link against the proper c++ libs then.

If you want to use C's string.h header file then use #include <cstring> instead.

Hi all,

I forgot to use namespaces in the relevent header files and that is why the error was happening. After including the namespaces in the header file and the source file, it compiled properly using g++.

Thanks for the help.

Regards
Prakash