How do you create a freestanding C++ program?

Question

I\'m just wondering how you create a freestanding program in C++?

Edit: By freestanding I mean a program that doesn\'t run in a hosted envrioment (eg.

Answer 1

google 'embedded c++' for a start

Another idea is to start with the embedded systems emulators, for example the atmel AVR site has a nice IDE the emulates atmel AVR systems, and allows you to build raw code in C and load it into an emulated CPU, they use gcc as toolchain (I think)