Am in need of help.

[BlackDecibel]

Firstly, yes, I am a newbie to Linux, just another newbie. I'm on Ubuntu. I'm loving it. It is tons better than Windows (but less applications, eh, not fussy)
I haven't yet made a huge convert from Windows to Linux because it is on my CD. I will be, anyway.

I am currently learning about C++ via reading through a book.

The problem is, it's the compiler. I got the error after the attempt to compile. It is this: "fatal error: isostream: No such file or directory
compilation terminated." (Latest version - 4.6.1).

What is going on? I've googled everywhere and found of no hope. So I thought I should post it here and hopefully you guys can help me!

Many thanks!

[fashizzlepop]

Post the code.

Also, are you including <iostream> or "iostream" or <iostream.h> or "iostream.h"?

[BlackDecibel]

Post the code.

Also, are you including <iostream> or "iostream" or <iostream.h> or "iostream.h"?

#include <iostream>
using namespace std ;

int main()
{
count << "Hello World!" << endl ;
return 0 ;
}

Here it is! A simple hello world.

Ah, so am I supposed to change the <iostream> to <iostream.h>? I'm gonna try all of that. EDIT: No luck.

[ghost107]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std ;

int main()
{
count << "Hello World!" << endl ;
return 0 ;
}

The code looks good, only problem is you wrote count instead of cout.

[BlackDecibel]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std ;

int main()
{
count << "Hello World!" << endl ;
return 0 ;
}

The code looks good, only problem is you wrote count instead of cout.

Strangely, that fixed the problem. Thanks for spotting that out anyway!

[LoGiCaL__]

better off using std::cout <<
drop using namespace std

[WallShadow]

better off using std::cout << <br>drop using namespace std

Really? Why would you drop the namespace std? It makes it much easier to work with a program with a million cout << and endl.

[ghost107]

Strangely, that fixed the problem. Thanks for spotting that out anyway!

You should try to read your compiling output, to catch syntax errors(and understand them).

The difference between "using namespace std" and "std::" is that you load all the std types globally(especially if you declare it in header files), an alternative is to use the using method in the functions and the specified type (that you need)by calling "using std::"

Example:

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    using std::cout;//for printing
    using std::endl;//for new line, I usually use '\n'
    cout << "Hello World!" << endl ;
    return 0 ;
}

Or what LoGiCaL__ said, but for small projects or for beginners I say using namespace std is still good to use.

[WallShadow]

Yes, I agree. However on a different topic, isn't "using std::cout;" supposed to be outside main()? I'm not entirely sure if functions declared in the file can use cout if you reference cout only in the main. And personally, I used to also use '\n' all the time, but endl just makes it more readable.

[ghost107]

It can be used locally or globally, in the example above it was an example using it locally, if you have many functions you can declare it outside the function(globally,but not in header files).