'crtbegin.o' not found using Bloodshed GNU compiler

[Tracy Yucikas]

Greetings: (and a subued "help" )


I'm a (maybe less than) novice programmer taking an intro to C/C++ 
programming class.

Problem is I downloaded Bloodshed gnu package and can compile "C" programs
but C++ gives me an error message

"cannot open crtbegin.o No such file or directory"


I'm using win xp. My teacher said to try asking on a newsgroup to
see if anyone would probably have  knowledge of what I'm doing wrong.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

-tyucikas