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Old 06-26-2007
newbie problem
Im new to gcc, vim etc... and I've been trying a simple hello world program and every time I try to compile any C program I get the following error message

Code:
test.c :1:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
test.c : In function 'main':
test.c :5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'

this is probably the stupidest post ever but I really want to program on my linux box.
# 2  
Old 06-26-2007
Can you post your code? See, the compiler is looking for stdio.h in a location like /usr/include/stdio.h (not sure if it is exactly the same on Linux), so you will get this error if the file isn't present there.
# 3  
Old 06-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by blowtorch
Can you post your code? See, the compiler is looking for stdio.h in a location like /usr/include/stdio.h (not sure if it is exactly the same on Linux), so you will get this error if the file isn't present there.
It is /usr/include on my Linux box.

Do an ls in /usr/include and post the results.
# 4  
Old 06-26-2007
the only thing in my /usr/include is python2.4 python2.5 and X11 so I guess this means I don't have any C libraries?

If thats the case then where can I get them=/


[EDIT] blowtorch this is the only thing I've tried so far.

Code:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

   printf("Hello World");

   return (0);
}

# 5  
Old 06-26-2007
Hey I finally got it working..

I was over at the ubuntu forums and searched around when I saw something I hadn't installed (build-essential) so after I installed it the libraries where their and I finally received my a.out..
# 6  
Old 06-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by blowFish@ubuntu
the only thing in my /usr/include is python2.4 python2.5 and X11 so I guess this means I don't have any C libraries?
Good to hear that you got it working. Just one thing. The files in /usr/include are not library files. Those are just the header files. These contain function definitions and such. Library files would be available under /usr/lib.
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