Eclipse CDT: Symbol ‘cout’ could not be resolved

Most likely you have some system-specific include directories missing in your settings which makes it impossible for indexer to correctly parse iostream, thus the errors. Selecting Index -> Search For Unresolved Includes in the context menu of the project will give you the list of unresolved includes which you can search in /usr/include and add containing directories to C++ Include Paths and Symbols in Project Properties.

On my system I had to add /usr/include/c++/4.6/x86_64-linux-gnu for bits/c++config.h to be resolved and a few more directories.

Don’t forget to rebuild the index (Index -> Rebuild) after adding include directories.

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