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

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

Al <alb...@ya...> writes:

> 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. 

Do you see intense Hard Disk activity? 16 MB is not much, but it
should be enough for a "Hello world!" program. On your machine a IO
streams-based hello world program possibly needs a minute or two to
compile.

Try compiling first and then linking:

g++ -c hello.cpp
g++ -o hello.exe hello.o

At least you will see what step fails. If g++ seems to be hanged,
execute the above commands again passing the -v parameter:

g++ -v -c hello.cpp
g++ -v -o hello.exe hello.o

and come back to the mailing list with the text output it produces.

> 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.

-- 
Oscar