redhat 7.3 c++

[soul4real]

I'm using redhat 7.3 and was wondering whether gcc is automatically configured in setup. Because I wrote a simple "hello world" program in c++ and it doesn't compile.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm knew to linux and the man pages are a bit technical.

[bwkaz]

How did you try to compile it (what was the command line)? And what was the exact text of the error?

gcc is not a C++ compiler -- g++ is the C++ version. gcc is for C only.

A "default" RedHat install might leave out a compiler altogether -- I know it used to, but I'm not sure any more. If you installed the "development" packages though, they should both (gcc and g++) be there.

[soul4real]

Thanks for that, it makese sense.