Re: newbie question

[Thomas Maeder]

firegun9@yahoo.com.tw (Joe) writes:

> #include <iostream>

Note that you also have to #include <ostream> to make sure that your program
portably behaves as you expect.


> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
>    cout << "Hello";
>    return (0);
> }
>
>
> Then back to the console, I type "g++ test.cpp -o test".
> Fortunately, I got no errors and a file "test.exe" in the same directory.
>
> But I got a problem here.
> When I type "test" or "test.exe" to execute that program, nothing happened.
> There isn't any error or message, just like it is an empty program.
>
> Am I doing wrong somewhere??

Yes. cygwin-wise, not C++-wise. The current directory is obviously not in
the PATH, so you have to do something like

./test.exe