Need good Linux C++ Compiler

Breezwell · 08-27-2001, 09:25 AM

I have been using gcc for C programming, but cannot seem to get any C++ code to compile. I installed the gcc++ tarball that came with my Mandrake 7.2 and Red Hat 7.2 distro's, but no luck.

I use the following command line statement to compile my C code:

gcc -o <program> <program.c>

This works just fine.
Do I use the same statement for C++?:

gcc -o <program> <program.cpp>

I really dont want to have to use any Window$ applications to do this.

Thanks for any help .

acid_kewpie · 08-27-2001, 11:02 AM

compilers like gcc distinguish (primarily) between c and c++ by their fiel extension. .c files are assumed to be standard c, whilst .cc files are c++. you should not need to change the compiler you use.

i think that you can use the 'c++' compiler which defaults to c++ code i presume.

AHHH.. cpp cplusplus... of course! why didn't i realise that sooner?? same went for gtk-- / gtkmm. and of course realising why c++ is called so took even longer.. DOH! :-)

Breezwell · 08-27-2001, 11:49 AM

Apparently I was using the wrond command line statement.
On my system, I needed to use the following:

c++ -o <program> <program.c>

The documentation at the GCC site covers this issue very well.

acid_kewpie · 08-27-2001, 11:59 AM

well, the point is that you shouldn't need to do that, as having the non-standard file extension makes poor programming practice and so forth...

Breezwell · 08-27-2001, 12:24 PM

I am saving my programs with a .cpp extension though.
I am not saving with any sort of odd file extension.

acid_kewpie · 08-27-2001, 12:54 PM

hey.. sorry, but in your reply you used <program.c>, that's all!

Breezwell · 08-27-2001, 04:11 PM

Ah, my bad.

Thanks for your help though.

isajera · 08-28-2001, 05:43 PM

...there's also g++.