From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 10:31:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA14110 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:31:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA14105 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA12395; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:30:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:30:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: John Clark cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C++ Compiler? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970109123103.00a62ab0@netview.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, John Clark wrote: > I have a question concerning the GNU C compiler that is built into FreeBSD. > Does this compiler support C++? If not, is there a C++ compiler > available? A cursory glance of the "Application Software" does not reveal > any such app. Yes, gcc does support c++; invoke it as "g++" to get the proper libraries. It's not complete support, but it's enough for what you'll be doing unless you get into exceptions. The GCC documentation (available through 'info' if you installed the info distribution) should have further details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major