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Re: Regd. GNU installation


/ David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
| On Wednesday 12 Sep 01, Tejeswara Kotthakota writes:
| > Hi, 
| > 
| > I installed Cygwin on my Windows NT machine. I see that Cygwin comes with GCC 2.95.x.
| > I wrote a small C++ program to test it.
| > When I try,
| > 
| > $gcc filename.cc 
| > 
| > it was giving following error,
| > 
| > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -luser32
| > Collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| 
| You must use g++ to compile C++ programs, not gcc.

No you don't.. gcc compiles c++-files ok, but it doesn't add the
-liostream needed for a normal hello world.. 

Checking the archives it seems like the w32api package is missing.

        /Andy

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