Help me with this hello world program

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This doesn't work!

C++

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;        // not fond of STDs but never mind

int main()
{
    cout << "What are you upto bebe";
}

Please help!!

Error message here http://i.imgur.com/gvfsURZ.png[^]

Text version:

C:\Users\me\Desktop\console>cl hello.cpp
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 18.00.31101 for x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

hello.cpp
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\INCLUDE\xlocale(337) : wa
rning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not enabled. S
pecify /EHsc
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 12.00.31101.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

/out:hello.exe
hello.obj
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libcpmt.lib'

C:\Users\me\Desktop\console>

Posted 17-Mar-15 4:52am

another newbie

Updated 17-Mar-15 5:23am

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PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 10:55am

In what way does it not work?

[no name] 17-Mar-15 10:56am

it doesn't compile

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:02am

Then please use Improve question to add the error message to your question.

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:12am

I've added it

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Mar-15 11:17am

As a bitmap? ::Facepalm:: :-)
—SA

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:19am

LOL. don't facepalm at newbies :P

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:25am

(I think it was his own face.) :D

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Mar-15 11:35am

Probably you practiced drawing (did you?) and understand how such works are usually done. Would you think I did not have reasons for facepalm in the past and never looked in the mirror? :-)
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Mar-15 11:32am

Why, indeed? It does not mean that I think you does not deserve a chance — you do.
It's just it's too boring: to make a deep breath and advise you what to do. :-)

Seriously, before becoming a newbie in software engineering and programming (I would rather prefer dealing with the beginner :-), you are supposed to become and advanced and confident regular system user. As such, you should know that it's easy to copy any text in a clipboard and paste this text in the answer. You can copy any text from any Visual Studio window and any console output of any application (but, unfortunately, Windowed UI applications are not all designed so nicely).

The text form of the message in the body of the question is really important, because people trying to help you also want to copy part of your post to the clipboard to do the search with some search strings, and things like that. Note that you are the one who is the most interested in that.

Than you for your understanding and collaboration.

—SA

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:36am

i liked the second last paragraph :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Mar-15 11:41am

:-)
Thank you.
It's important to use my advice, for your own benefits.

Cheers,
—SA

Jochen Arndt 17-Mar-15 11:02am

Then you should get an error message that may be helpful to find the reason.

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:12am

I've added a link to the image, BTW the error message is too complex for a bebe like me. Just saying.

Jochen Arndt 17-Mar-15 11:13am

An image?
Can't you just copy and paste the error message?

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:14am

No, it's on the cmd

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:18am

You can still copy and paste. If it's in the console, you may need to enable it -- right-click the top border , Properties , Options tab , Enable "QuickEdit Mode" .

Jochen Arndt 17-Mar-15 11:22am

Snap!
It's now the second time that you are faster (both times it shows the same secs ago).

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:37am

helped. thanks.

Jochen Arndt 17-Mar-15 11:18am

Then click on the symbol on the top left of the command window. That opens a menu. There is a sub menu providing editing functions where you can activate the selection mode. Then use the cursor keys or the mouse to select the text and press 'Enter'. The selected text is now on the clipboard and can be pasted anywhere.

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:33am

"use the cursor keys or the mouse to select the text"

I use the mouse.

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:20am

Why didn't you just use the VS2013 Build menu to compile?

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:26am

wanted to get the hang of command line first. (also I'm running this outside VS. Using the VS command line tools)

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:33am

Good; you should.

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:15am

Just for the record you should seriously reconsider your choices in user names

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:17am

okay. I'll change it.

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:19am

It's the milf one that is the worst of the two :)

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:28am

changed that too :(

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:26am

Ah - that is a linking error not a compile error

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:31am

what do i do now?

2 solutions

Solution 1

When you try to compile this you get

Quote:
fatal error C1010: unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header. Did you forget to add '#include "StdAfx.h"' to your source?
1>

Funnily enough if you follow the advice the problem goes away

C++

#include "StdAfx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;        // not fond of STDs but never mind

int main()
{
    cout << "What are you upto bebe";
}

EDIT - contents of stdafx.h

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// stdafx.h : include file for standard system include files,
// or project specific include files that are used frequently, but
// are changed infrequently
//

#pragma once

#include "targetver.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>



// TODO: reference additional headers your program requires here

Posted 17-Mar-15 5:14am

CHill60

Updated 17-Mar-15 5:21am

v2

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[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:16am

what's StdAfx.h? Is that a standard library as well?

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:25am

Yes it's a standard header - I've included the content in the solution

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:20am

But how do you know what compiler is being used?

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:23am

It's got vs2013 in the image

PIEBALDconsult 17-Mar-15 11:26am

Oh, right, I didn't look at the image.

CHill60 17-Mar-15 11:29am

Interestingly OP appears to be using the VS12 command line compiler instead of the IDE!
I may have to delete this solution as now I've looked at the image and error properly I notice it's a linking error - it's probably a pathing issue

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:30am

BTW, the error you seem to be addressing is different from what I'm seeing. Please see edit of the question. It doesn't say anything about precompiled headers.

CHill60 17-Mar-15 12:34pm

I pasted your code into the VS2013 C++ IDE out-of-the-box and that was the error I got. For the link error follow the instructions in Solution 2.

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17T05:29:00

Solution 2

The error message is a linker error telling you that a specific library can't be found.

Because you are compiling on the command line, you must set some general environment variables. This can be done by calling the vcvars32.bat script which should have been generated by your VS setup and stored in the VC\bin directory.

Posted 17-Mar-15 5:29am

Jochen Arndt

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[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:32am

I ran that script, still doesn't work :/

[no name] 17-Mar-15 11:33am

C# compiles just fine though.

Jochen Arndt 17-Mar-15 11:40am

On the command line type 'set' and check the value behind 'LIB='.

The libcpmt.lib file must be located in one of the directories (usually the VC/lib directory).

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