Hello,

I am running RH8 with my Grub kernel. I am trying to compile a simple hello
world program in C++ to be compiled and ran and am not sure if I am doint
it right.

I looked in various places for this info to do correctly.

One result was to issue the command:
gcc -o helloworld helloworld.cpp

didn't work

I searched further only to find that I need to link this to an object file
that needs to be created in order for the program to execute properly.
gcc -o helloworld helloworld.o

and then to execute
gcc -o helloworld helloworld.cpp

With this procedure implemented, I get an error, don't remember exactly;
however there are many errors that pertain to each file in the process of
compile that generate the same " extra dependancy to "*.*" and I get no
further results.

I then tried the makefile option to execute the make command at the terminal
prompt.

my makefile looked like this;

helloworld: helloworld.cc
gcc -o helloworld helloworld.cc

did I have the wrong extensions here in my make file?
i was told by this method that no directives are included with the makefile.

do I only have partially correct all of these procedures?
What do I need to do to compile a program?

Thanks

KW