ok, im new to this so please dont laugh.

This is what I get after using the hello world cpp

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Adam>bcc32.exe -c c:\borland\hello.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
c:\borland\hello.cpp:
Error E2209 c:\borland\hello.cpp 1: Unable to open include file 'iostream.h'
Error E2451 c:\borland\hello.cpp 5: Undefined symbol 'cout' in function main()
*** 2 errors in Compile ***


my cpp file is:

#include <iostream.h>

int main ()
{
cout << "Hello World!\n";
return 0;
}

Can anyone help me out please?? Thanks!

Probably the easiest way is to put two configuration files in the directory where bcc32.exe lives:

bcc32.cfg
ilink32.cfg

For my installation, bcc32.exe is in directory C:\Borland\BCC55\Bin (the default installation directory, as I recall).


The contents my bcc32.cfg are

The contents of my ilink32.cfg are

If your installation directory is different, make changes in the paths shown.

I hope this helps,

Dave

ok. It works now. Now it made a .obj file. How do I turn it into an exe?

How are you compiling the file?

In my case, the bcc32.exe in on my PATH environment variable.

Then I open a console window, navigate to where the source file resides.

Suppose the source file is named "hello.cpp"

I type the following on the command line:

bcc32 hello.cpp

The result is that the following files are added to the same directory:

hello.obj
hello.exe

(There is another file, hello.tds, which you don't need to worry about just now.)

So --- just enter the following on the command line:

hello


And see your message!




Dave

so this exaple was a dos only example? It doesnt run in windows, I have to run it trough msdos.

It runs on windows, its output is just directed to a console windows. If you run it by clicking on the icon, it will execute and exit before you see it running. To make it pause at the end, modify your program to wait for a key press something like:


It doubles the size of your program but should wait now even if you click on the icon.

HTH

Just wondering Im learning from sams teach your self. Lets say i get the knack of it, can this program creat a window like programs like winamp, or what not, or do I need another program to creat things such as that?

in c++ coding, is their a way to input an audio command, and or send an audio responce.

Example, im trying to make a program to activate programs by voice. Also, if an erro occures in the process, I would like it to say the error verably, using pre created mp2/wav files with the errors written in them. Any help or a link to somewhere that can help is appreatiated.

Have you looked anywhere for a library? I'm sure someone has probably designed a library with classes to make this a lot less painful.

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-Aaron

I am not 100% sure what is included in the borland compiler you have but there is probably some kind of dialog editor or gui editor. There are also many free gui toolkits that you can use.

This is my own opinion, but GUI programming can be pretty involved. Here is a link to a tutorial that I wrote about a gui toolkit. This is the simplest of toolkits to understand (IMHO) and it can become pretty complex.

C (or C++) is the best language for me. But it may not necesarily be the best for what your application is. You can probably find alot of sound libraries for many languages to handle sound programming.

Once again this would be pretty involved and no matter what Sams says, you can't teach yourself C in 24 hours. My advice is to pick a programming language (hopefully C ) and learn it starting from the basics up before you get too caught up in this other stuff.