Help with <iostream.h> and Linker errors

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Chris Jones - 02 Mar 2006 15:28 GMT

I am using the old <iostream.h>. When I compile a simple test program that
uses <iostream.h>, Visual C++ 7 gives me this strange error:

Compiling...
capp.cpp
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\include\useoldio.h(29) :
warning C4995: '_OLD_IOSTREAMS_ARE_DEPRECATED': name was marked as #pragma
deprecated
Linking...
LIBCMTD.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main
referenced in function _mainCRTStartup
Debug/Test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

I did some digging and found out the <iostream.h> was far outdated.
Therefore, I include the new iostream, <iostream>, but then the compiler says
that cout and cin (the only iostream commands I used) were not defined. How
can I use cout and cin without getting a compiler (or linker) error?

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David Wilkinson - 02 Mar 2006 15:36 GMT

> I am using the old <iostream.h>. When I compile a simple test program that
> uses <iostream.h>, Visual C++ 7 gives me this strange error:
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> that cout and cin (the only iostream commands I used) were not defined. How
> can I use cout and cin without getting a compiler (or linker) error?

Chris::

std::cin, std::cout, std::endl

Or you can use

using namespace std;

But don't put it in a header.

David Wilkinson

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Chris Jones - 02 Mar 2006 16:35 GMT

Thanks, problem fixed.

> > I am using the old <iostream.h>. When I compile a simple test program that
> > uses <iostream.h>, Visual C++ 7 gives me this strange error:
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>
> David Wilkinson

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