Re: [Mingw-users] Trouble compiling C++ code

[Nehal M. <ne...@ca...>]

Al wrote:

>On 11/27/02 I downloaded and installed the latest
>mingw bundle to my PC. Its a Pentium I 133Mhz with 16M
>of ram and it runs windows 95. I know this is an old
>computer. When I try to compile any C++ programs (Even
>a very basic console based hello world program) The
>compiler never completes. I can compile straight C
>code with no problems. 
>
>The same package installed on my work PC has no
>problems. This is a much newer PC running Windows 2000
>and has 128M of Ram. 
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>  
>
make sure u are using the "g++" command and not "gcc"  ...
IIRC, in gcc 2.95  .... gcc could be used to compiled c++
source files ( i think it detected by extension) , but this is 
definitely not
the case for gcc 3.2

Nehal