gcc does not know about "new" and "delete"

[Lewis Hyatt]

> This is what happens when I try to compile this program under cygwin on 
> my Windows XP machine:
> 
> % gcc newtest.cpp
> /tmp/ccReoXoA.o:newtest.cpp:(.text+0x32): undefined reference to 
> `operator new(unsigned int)'
> /tmp/ccReoXoA.o:newtest.cpp:(.text+0x5e): undefined reference to 
> `operator delete(void*)'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 

gcc is compiling the C++ source fine, but it does not automatically 
figure out that it needs to link in the c++ runtime. You have to call it 
as "g++" instead. It works that way on Linux too.

-Lewis


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