gcc newbie

[Imin]

hi

how do we run our source code using gcc..?

cause the gcc command would only compile the source code, right?

thanx a lot

bye

[jme]

I don't know if this will help but there's a few help files:

http://justlinux.com/nhf/Installation

Especially this one:
http://justlinux.com/nhf/Installation/Compiling_Software.html

Jme

[Imin]

emm...sorry.... it seems that i don't get my message through...

what actually i'm trying to do is.. i'm writing programs using C++... and i want to use gcc as the compiler... but i don't know how to view the output file of my program...

thanx a lot for helping

[serz]

What do you mean? Run the program?

./program

[Imin]

just run

./program

after we have compiled the source code,is it?

thanx a lot

[bwkaz]

And for a C++ program you need to use g++ instead of gcc, but other than that, yeah.

Also, if you don't tell gcc (or g++) the filename to write its output to (by passing -o progname on its command line), it'll write to the file a.out (assembler output). So if you just g++ mycppfile.cpp, you would run the resulting program with ./a.out; if you did a g++ -o myprog mycppfile.cpp, then you would run ./myprog instead.

[Imin]

oh..

thanx a lot :D

[Citadel]

You can use gcc but you have to tell the inker to load the C++ library:

gcc program.cpp -lstdc++

[Citadel]

This will vary between Linux platforms but here is another way to do it:

gcc prog.cpp /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/libstdc++.a

or:

gcc prog.cpp /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/libstdc++.so


...because all of the object files for the c++ or whatever library you are loading are contained in files with the '.so' or the '.a' extension. If one doesn't work, try the other.

[ecks]

I had the same exast problem when I started. Now my syntax is just:

$ g++ foo.cc -o foo.exe

I use foo.exe because I'm used to Windows so much but I think the output file can be just about any name. I still am getting hold of the debugger though.