Question

I wrote a program, which needs to be tested in Linux, Windows and Solaris. The first two were easy, but Solaris has been very troublesome. I don’t have g++ in the Solaris machine I’m running those tests, so I’m stuck with cc.
So, I first tried:

cc -g -o transfer transfer.cpp -lcurl

and the output was:

ld: fatal: file transfer.cpp : unknown file type
ld: fatal: no output written to transfer

If someone knows any other native C++ compiler for Solaris, please let me know, and I will give it shot. I went to Oracle Solaris website, and they said they support .cpp files in cc. Could someone please help me with that?
Thanks

Answer 1

It’s CC for C++, not cc. So, if you want to compile C++ in solaris do

CC -g -o [output] [filename] [libraries]

for C do:

cc -g -o [output] [filename] [libraries]

please pay attention of the upper case letters!