g++: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

[DanSandbergUCONN]

I'm on a MacBook running mac osx 10.4.11, I have Xcode, gnu, and I'm using the terminal command: g++ -o helloworld helloworld.c

I get the error:
g++: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

What does this error mean?

Thanks,
Dan

[Laharl]

A .c file is C source code. If you're writing C++ code, end it with .cpp instead.

[gpraghuram]

You can compile a .c file using g++.
I think the installation is not fine or some required components are missing.

Raghu

[JosAH]

I'm on a MacBook running mac osx 10.4.11, I have Xcode, gnu, and I'm using the terminal command: g++ -o helloworld helloworld.c

I get the error:
g++: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

What does this error mean?

It means that your shell could find the g++ frontend of the GNU compiler but that
frontend couldn't find cc1plus, the actual C++ compiler; it could find cpp, the
preprocessor, it already ran. Go to the directory where the g++ frontend is stored
(type: "which g++") and look for the file cc1plus in that same directory or a sub-
directory thereof. If it isn't there your compiler installation is broken; if it is there
some configuration of it went berzerk.

Are you able to compile ordinary C files using 'gcc'?

kind regards,

Jos