From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14444 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2006 20:39:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 14434 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2006 20:38:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:38:57 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1BKcsA7002690; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:38:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:41:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Nitin Mathur cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Need Help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00413.txt.bz2 On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Nitin Mathur wrote: > Hi,, > > I am sorry for sending the previous post without any message. It was > sent by mistake. > > I am facing a small problem. I have gcc 2.95 installed on my machine. I > cannot download the latest version or any other version of cygwin and > gcc because these are my company requirements. I have to work on this > version of gcc > > When I try to compile any cpp file, the linker throws an error "cannot > find -lstdc++". > > I tried to search the complete cygwin directory for the library. I could > find "libstdc++.a.2.10.0". I tried to rename this as stdc++.a but failed ^^^^^^^^ > in my attempt to get the file linked. The name you chose is wrong; -lstdc++ will look for a file named "libstdc++.a", not "stdc++.a". But this is unlikely to work in any case, since the above library does not come from the gcc2 Cygwin package. Looks like your version of gcc2 is screwed up. > Can anybody help me in this regard ? I shall be really grateful. > > I have attached the error message below the mail. > > Best regards, > Nitin Mathur, > > C:\TEMP>g++ c3.cpp -Wall > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-6/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Start here: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Please pay particular attention to the part that talks about message subjects and the part that asks you to attach (as an uncompressed text attachment) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your machine. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/