On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:51 AM, robert watson <reswatson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > I can't get my HelloWorld c++ test program to work > because <iostream> is not known by the compiler: it > produces 5 errors in all. Therefore gcc is not standard c++. > > Do you know if there is a standard GNU compiler out there, or > if there is some command that I need to add to the gcc in > the command line to make it work as a standard c++ compiler? > If so this should be the first thing in the manual. You probably used gcc helloworld.cc # uses c compiler instead of g++ helloworld.cc # uses c++ compiler -Tom