From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 19:12:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c000.paix.cp.net (c000-h003.c000.paix.cp.net [209.228.15.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC5D0156D4 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 19:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: (cpmta 15190 invoked from network); 4 May 1999 19:11:25 -0700 Received: from usr5-ppp98.lvdi.net (HELO lvdi.net) (216.24.141.98) by smtp.lvdi.net with SMTP; 4 May 1999 19:11:25 -0700 X-Sent: 5 May 1999 02:11:25 GMT Message-ID: <372FAA0F.6EEED2DA@lvdi.net> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 19:16:47 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mongoos411@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about how to program in C++ in BSD. And, help on install X. References: <175d589b.2460f32f@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To install X-windows, I believe you can just do a /stand/sysinstall (not too sure... FBSD box not with me here :) To execute the hello world program, you must type in ./a.out (current director, a.out) instead of a.out. Hope this helps :) Frankie Mongoos411@aol.com wrote: > Hey there, i've got FreeBSD 2.2.7. There are a couple of things that im > trying to do. > > 1. Install X-Windows. I tried, I read the FAQ, it seems that the first time > I tried it it created the *.log files. yet when I tryed "startx" or "xdm" > noting happens. I get "command not found." I admit I am a begginer so I > found the FAQ a little hard to digest and still do. Any FAQ on install X for > newbies? Do I have have to compile it first before I make it? If, so what > dir? > > 2. This brings me to my next problem. I tried to make World, but instead I > got "can't. dont know how to make world" Im stumpted guys. Any suggestions. > > 3. Lastly, I tried to compile and execute a simple hello world program in > C++ on FreeBSD. I got an a.out file yet, when I type "a.out" to try to > execute it, it says "file not found." Am I missing something here? Do I > need some ports or libraries or something? > > Any help to these questions would be greatly appreciated for a struggling > unix person. Thanks for your time > Jeff. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message