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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject: Beginner C++ Question

I'm looking through this tutorial and it doesnt tell me which kind of project in the projects thingy on visual c++ The hello world script thing is. eg.ATL com Appwizard, win 32 dll and more. which project should it be?

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#include <iostream.h>





 int main()


 {


    cout << "Hello World!\n";


        return 0;


 }

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: Beginner C++ Question

i3lackmagik132 wrote:
I'm looking through this tutorial and it doesnt tell me which kind of project in the projects thingy on visual c++ The hello world script thing is. eg.ATL com Appwizard, win 32 dll and more. which project should it be?

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#include <iostream.h> int main() { cout << "Hello World!\n"; return 0; }

First thing. You'll really annoy me calling it a script. It's not. It's C++.

Second thing. I don't know if your tutorial told you this, so I'll explain it anyway: 'cout' is the pre-defined stream object for the standard output device. The standard output device (STDOUT) is the console, so any data you pass to the stream will be displayed on the console.

This means that you will need to start an empty console project for the program to work correctly.

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject:

Technically, it's a script to instruct the compiler how to assemble machine instructions Smile

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:59 pm Post subject:

Lycander wrote:
Technically, it's a script to instruct the compiler how to assemble machine instructions

I disagree, I would say that the pre-processor directives instruct the compiler how to assemble machine instruction, the code itself is just an abstraction of which machine instructions to assemble.

A sort of neumonic for your neumonics, if you will.

Very Happy

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:59 pm Post subject:

Ty, but I actually used a c++ source file

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

i3lackmagik132 wrote:
Ty, but I actually used a c++ source file

A source file on it's own is not a project in VC++, I think you'll find that the first time you compile it, it'll ask you if you want to create a workspace for it. It'll create a default console project for you.

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 1:30 am Post subject:

it should be a Win32 Console Application

and as CMTG said, a new project, with only that 1 source file in it