Ok, that seemed to allow it to compile, but not to link. These are just a sample of the errors I'm getting. Any clue?? Justin /tmp/ccBFO83w.o(.text+0x22): In function `main': : undefined reference to `std::allocator<char>::allocator[in-charge]()' /tmp/ccBFO83w.o(.text+0x3d): In function `main': : undefined reference to `std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string[in-charge](char const*, std::allocator<char> const&)' /tmp/ccBFO83w.o(.text+0x5d): In function `main': : undefined reference to `std::allocator<char>::~allocator [in-charge]()' On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:58, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > Hi Justin, > > For instance: > gcc -x c++ foo.whatever > > --Eljay > >