Matthew Mueller[SMTP:donut@azstarnet.com] wrote: >when I try to compile this program: [snip: program using iostreams] >I get this error: >>f:\prog\c32>gcc test.cpp >C:\WIN95\TEMP/cc0010001.o(.text+0x1a):test.cc: undefined reference to `cout' [snip: etc...] Try "gcc test.cpp -liostreams" or "gcc test.cpp -lstdc++" to link in a library which contains iostreams. They are not linked by default. The actual strange thing is that g++ doesn't seem to link these by default either (correct me if I'm wrong). Colin. -- Colin Peters - colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".