On 19 May 2005, Wesley Smith prattled cheerily: > Apparently, on OSX, gcc dynamically calls g++ or gcc depending on the > source file extension names. In any case, I tried calling g++ from > the command line and got the same errors. I'm using a library called > Imagemagick (thus the magick++). Here's my code: > > #include <Magick++.h> > #include <iostream> > > using namespace std; > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > Magick::Image image; > image.read("/Users/na/Documents/IGERT/vcsel.gif" ); > > return 0; > } This works flawlessly with ImageMagick-6.2.1 on Linux. What version of ImageMagick do you have? Some (distinctly aged) versions of Magick++ had problems with namespace std :( -- `End users are just test loads for verifying that the system works, kind of like resistors in an electrical circuit.' - Kaz Kylheku in c.o.l.d.s