Hello, I'm not sure this is the right address but I just can't get gcc to compile any program using <iostream>, I tried everything I can think of. When I try to compile just this: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { //nothing in here! } it returns: gcc -g -Wall -o hello.exe hello.cc C:\WINDOWS\TEMP/cc2c06fb.o: In function `Z41__static_initialization_and_destruction_0ii': C:/PROGRA~1/MINGW/include/c++/3.2/iostream:62: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init()' C:/PROGRA~1/MINGW/include/c++/3.2/iostream:62: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init()' C:\WINDOWS\TEMP/cc2c06fb.o: In function `main': C:/Eigene Dateien/Tis/cpp/hello.cc:5: undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' Compilation finished at Mon Apr 12 23:24:15 I'd be VERY happy if you could help me, I've been trying to get this working for hours. Christine Tobler PS: Here's all the system info I could think of as might be useful: I got gcc with MinGW32 2.0.0.3, when I do gcc -v there appears: C:\WINDOWS>gcc -v Reading specs from C:/PROGRA~1/MINGW/BIN/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2/specs Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --host= mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads --disable-nls --en able -languages=f77,c++,objc,ada --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared Thread model: win32 gcc version 3.2 (mingw special 20020817-1) and with ld -v: C:\WINDOWS>ld -v GNU ld version 2.13 I got this error on two computers, one with Windows 98 and one with Windows XP.