Hi Tanja, >this is the code: That's not valid C++ (ISO 14882-1998) code. Try this instead for your hallo.cpp source... #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "hallo" << std::endl; } It appears that your C++ reference books are slightly out of date. HTH, --Eljay PS: I've been using GCC on Mac OS X for several years.