g++ compiler throwing errors with basic commands to compile

Question

I'm currently using the g++ compiler on Mac OS X, trying to run the command

g++ rt.cpp –o rt  

For some strange reason, it throws the following errors:

clang: error: no such file or directory: '–o'
clang: error: no such file or directory: 'rt'

My gcc compiler works fine with the C projects I've written, so Xcode didn't entirely fail to download it. Any ideas what could be wrong?

Answer 1

I think you have a dash character (–) instead of a minus (-) before of the 'o'.

Try

g++ rt.cpp -o rt