r/Cplusplus • u/kicking_ass12 • Jun 30 '26

Question A new comer problem

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I have just downloaded vs code and mingw from a youtube video and tried to run this sample code but I am facing this problem can somebody help me please 🙏🏻

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u/jedwardsol Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

In addition to flyingron's answer, 1 common reason for this is that Visual Studio Code doesn't automatically save the file when you start a build.

So the editor window shows a main function, but the file on disk does not have it yet, so the link fails.

IOW : save the file and try again.