Re: standard libraries

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 08/20/08 13:39, André Timpanaro wrote:
> I tried to compile a C code for the first time in a Debian machine and
> apparently gcc can't find the standard libraries.
>
> For example, compiling
>
> #include<stdio.h>
>
> int main(){
> printf("Hello World\n");
> return 0;
> }
>
> gives the following errors:
>
> hello.c:1:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> hello.c: In function 'main':
> hello.c:4: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
> function 'printf'
>
> AFAIK the standard libraries should be in /usr/include. A ls in this
> directory returns
>
> autosprintf.h  gdict-1.0  gettext-po.h  initreq.h  python2.3  python2.4  X11
>
> can somebody help me?

Do you have libc6-dev installed?

$ cat hello.c
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
    printf("Hello World\n");
}
$
$ gcc hello.c
$
$ ./a.out
Hello World
$


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