Eclipse Problem

[Tomn]

I couldn't find my problem so here goes:

I downloaded Eclipse plus the MinGW files but when I type the following code, it doesn't work and gives errors saying [iostream], [using] and [cout] are undefined :[

/*Game Over
 by Tomn*/

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	cout << ("Game Over!"); /* prints Game Over! */
	return 0;
}

Any solutions to my dilemma?

[helios]

Preprocessor directives don't end in semicolons.

[Tomn]

Heheh, nub question alert: thats the #include right? well, I changed that and still, nothing.

[Malachi]

Try changing it to iostream.h
You'll probably get a warning about deprecated headers doing that, though.

[Tomn]

Nope, nothing

[Malachi]

Personally I can compile it with, or without the .h.

Perhaps you have your IDE set to the wrong language? I don't think most IDEs can even report using as undefined.

for example, using Dev-C++ I can compile the following:

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	return 0;
}

and that doesn't have any include files at all. This leads me to believe something is set wrong in your compiler

[Umz]

Did you play around with the settings, change the directories or header files or something when you installed the IDE?
Does it recognise the #include <iostream> and change the colour after you put it in?

[helios]

Yeah, I think it's likely you didn't configure properly or at all the IDE, which is why it's not finding the include.

[Tomn]

I didn't configure anything, how do you configure it correctly?

[Tomn]

What's the correct way of configuring the IDE?

[mzd72]

you should type like this
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout << ("Game Over!"); /* prints Game Over! */
return 0;
}
in visual studio C++

[Tomn]

Hey, it worked out :)

So to anyone who was wondering, it worked after I made sure the file ended w/ ".cpp" (D'oh!) and after I got some Eclipse updates (Which I got automatically after opening up Eclipse today) :)

Thanks for your guys' help!