[Sussex] Compiler G++ problems

[Colin Tuckley]

Andrew Guard wrote:

> Err, it Open Source.  I thought the idea of having a compiler would
> installed by default to be useful.

Ubuntu is aimed at :users: not developers so why would it come with
compilers installed by default?

Having said that you should be able to work out what is missing very easily:

If you get compiler errors then you are probably missing header files -
which will be in the -dev libs.

If it fails to link (which seems to be your case) then it must be missing a
static lib that it needs. Take a look at the error messages and see what
unresolved symbols there are - then find out (via Google maybe) which
libraries provide them.

regards,

Colin

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