Re: c++ mode chooses "cc" as linker and cause error

[Dan Espen]

Michael Chen <vancouver.michael@gmail.com> writes:

>    Dear there,
>    on my machine, "M-x compile" choose "make -k", which in turn choose
>    "g++" and "cc" for my cpp file. How can I ask emacs to pick "g++" as
>    linker as well. Note that for some files, I just don't want to write a
>    makefile for it, and expect default make -k to work properly. thanks.

When g++ sees the .cpp suffix it uses g++.

Emacs doesn't pick the linker.
You tell emacs to compile with make,
make picks the right compiler/linker from the suffix.

You can cusomize the emacs variable 'compile-command'
to default to something other than "make -k".