I am using Arm toolchain on windows XP. I wil try installing the latest version. Maybe that could help. Thanks for the suggestion, Abhi Peter Cech wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:19:52 -0800, abhivg wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> WRT >> > Tell us the precise command that you ran and the precise output that >> > you got. We can't guess. >> >> I am working in a directory 'New Folder' which contains the following >> files: >> - main.cpp //main program >> - fittinglib.a //library/archive file >> - CurveFittingAPI.h //header file containing the exposed functions >> from >> the library file fittinglib.a >> >> I ran the following command: >> g++ -Wall main.cpp fittinglib.a >> >> I got the following output: >> >> C:\test2\New Folder>g++ -Wall main.cpp fittinglib.a >> main.cpp:4:20: no include path in which to search for string.h >> In file included from main.cpp:5: >> CurveFittingAPI.h:15:18: no include path in which to search for vector >> In file included from main.cpp:5: > > Looks like something went wrong when installing the compiler. Are you > using MinGW or Cygwin? > >> > I assume that by "an exe" you mean an executable file (the default >> > name on Unix is "a.out", but you can call it anything you like; >> > executable files generally have no extension on Unix). g++ will >> > generate this by default. For example "g++ hello.cc" will generate >> > the executable file "a.out". >> > >> > I assume that by "an .out file" you mean an object file (on Unix these >> > usually have an extension of ".o"). g++ will generate that if you use >> > the -c option. See the documentation. >> >> Yes, by exe I meant an executable file. By a '.out' file, I meant an >> output >> file or UNIX executable file. But, I would like to create an executable >> file >> on Windows(.exe) using g++. Pardon my ignorance, but is that possible er >> does it generate only UNIX executable files? > > Might be it is an exe, but with wrong extension (never tried myself). > Anyway, you can use > > g++ main.cpp -o myProgram.exe > > to generate executable with an appropriate name. > > Hope it helps, > Peter > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-with-g%2B%2B-%28Newbie%29-tf2759497.html#a7698268 Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
