Some functionalities in STL is missing using CC

If you trying to compile source code, having some STL used, with CC in SunOS. You may fail.

For example:
If you use std::list::sort() in, you will get following error like this one:

Error: Could not find a match for std::list::sort(bool(int,int))

This happens because CC is using the old libCstd .

Here’s a simple hello world program (everyone could write one)

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
	cout << "hello world" << endl;
	return 0;
}

So compile it with g++, see what happened.

$ g++ hello.cpp
$ ./a.out
hello world
$ ldd a.out
	libstdc++.so.6 =>	 /packages/gcc/4/lib/libstdc++.so.6
	libm.so.2 =>	 /lib/libm.so.2
	libgcc_s.so.1 =>	 /packages/gcc/4/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
	libc.so.1 =>	 /lib/libc.so.1
	/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libc_psr.so.1

Definitely, it uses libstdc++.

Now try CC this time.

$ ldd a.out
	libCstd.so.1 =>	 /usr/lib/libCstd.so.1
	libCrun.so.1 =>	 /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1
	libm.so.2 =>	 /lib/libm.so.2
	libc.so.1 =>	 /lib/libc.so.1
	/usr/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus/libCstd_isa.so.1
	/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libc_psr.so.1

See that? It use libCstd, which has something missing!

Detail: 
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/documentation/ss12u1/mr/READMEs/c++_faq.html#LibComp3

Solution for this is to use another library rather than libCstd. You can use stlport4.

For example:

CC source.cpp -c -library=stlport4