A work around for Linux users

[Scimor5]

compiling in a terminal is really easy. for c++ programs using g++ and its arguments correctly takes care of everything.

g++ -o myProgram thing.cpp main.cpp

This command compiles and links the code files
"thing.cpp" and "main.cpp" together into the executable program called
"myProgram".

other things to worry about are libraries

-I : Sets the path to the include files.
-L : Sets the path to the libraries.
-l : Use this library (eg. -lm to use libmath.so, -lpthread to use libpthread.so)

You can have multiple -I, -L and -l entries.
So, your final command should look like this:

g++ -o myProgram thing.cpp main.cpp -I /path/to/includes -L /path/to/libraries -l library1 -l library2

info about libraries can be found with the pkgconfig command.