I'm a noob, I admit it. Regardless, I've had a really annoying problem with MinGW.... I can write AND compile programs in C with no problem whatsoever, but recently I've tried to install Cmake, but I can't because it fails every time it tests the C++ compiler (g++). So that lead me to just write a simple "hello world" program in C++ and try to compile it. No dice. Again and again I get no response whatsoever. On the command line, I'm typing
g++ -o hello++.cpp hello++
but have also tried
g++ -o hello++.cxx hello++
g++ -o hello++.cc hello++
g++ -o hello++ hello++.cpp
(Of course I saved copies of the source code in the same directory with the .cxx and .cc extensions respectively)
and a bunch of other combinations thereof. Everytime I get nothing. No warning. No error. Nothing. No .exe file was created in the directory, and typing "hello++" on the command line afterwards just gives me a "command not found" error. Soooo.... what the hell is going on? Why does the gcc command work but the g++ not?
I'm on windows 8, using cygwin.
The last one should have succeeded; you won't get a message saying it's succeeded, but you should see the executable in the current directory. The others all try to take the executable as input and output the source, which won't work; although I'm surprised you don't get error messages.
If it did succeed, then simply typing hello++ is unlikely to run it since the current directory is typically not on the path. Try ./hello++ instead.
If it didn't succeed, then it's possible that g++ isn't installed properly. I'm afraid I've no idea how to fix a broken Cygwin installation. Perhaps which g++, to see which program is actually being run, might give some clues.