On 20/05/2012, blessman11 wrote: > > thanks, I'm a noob and I'm finding it hard to google decent tutorials. so > far I'm getting stuck at linking since my hello world program would even > compile with this line: > > g++ hello.cpp -o hello > > and all I get is an error telling that the compiler can't find the iostream > header file. The problem here is linking and how can I solve it? You'll need to provide the exact error if you want an answer. A missing header is not a linker error.