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[SOLVED] gcc fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory

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[SOLVED] gcc fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory

Post by JFitz » Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:24 pm

Hi. Trying to use gcc to compile «hello.c» file and get the error «gcc fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory». This happens from Code::Blocks, CodeLite or invoking gcc directly. From googling and this forum, the problem seems to be I need to install «build-essential» but that is «Not Available» in the Software Manager. Attempting to install it from the terminal brings up,

Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or libc-dev Depends: g++ (>= 4:9.2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 

I have searched around that too but got lost in the technicalities.

What do I have to do to be able to use gcc with Code::Blocks or CodeLite ideally to build and run a C console program please?

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GCC fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory

I’m trying to compile a program in C on OS X 10.9 with GCC 4.9 (experimental). For some reason, I’m getting the following error at compile time:

gcc: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory 

#include int main(int argc, const char *argv[])

Again, upon running gcc -o ~/hello ~/hello.c , I got the same error. I’m using an experimental version of gcc , but it seems implausible that there would be a release which generated errors upon importing stdio . What could be causing this issue, and how can it be fixed?

You can see where gcc is looking for header files by doing echo «#include » | gcc -v -x c — and examining the search paths.

Mavericks no longer has a base /usr/include. You need to link it into place from the XCode OS 10.9 SDK.

@user2615799 Its at sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include /usr/include

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macOS

I had this problem too (encountered through Macports compilers). Previous versions of Xcode would let you install command line tools through xcode/Preferences, but xcode5 doesn’t give a command line tools option in the GUI, that so I assumed it was automatically included now. Try running this command:

If you see an error message that developer tools are already installed (and still header files can’t be found), wipe out any existing one to do a fresh installation:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools 

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev 

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gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by lmitcham » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:39 pm

Hello.c:1:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory

I get this error after installing a fresh Linux Mint 14. I have added the correct directory to path and can see it when I type «echo $PATH» in terminal.

I am new to Linux and any advice is welcome.

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Re: gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by bjornmu » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:11 pm

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Re: gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by SiKing » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:39 pm

gcc is a compiler, Hello.c is a source file, stdio.h is a resource file.
The PATH is a variable where binary executables are searched for.
The above two items have absolutely nothign to do with each other!

You were apparently trying to compile something. What are you trying to accomplish, and how are you going about it? We need steps to reproduce to be able to help you.

Re: gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by lmitcham » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:48 am

I am attempting to get my feet wet with gcc and linux. I was simply creating a simple program, using Kate, from a tutorial. The ‘Hello.c’ program file is :

I created a directory named «Temp» under >home>mydir>Projects, and stored Hello.c there.

If I open terminal and go to the «Temp» directory and type «gcc Hello.c -o hello1», the response is
«fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory»

My first thought was that stdio.h was not in the PATH, so I added it and checked that the PATH was updated by typing
«echo $PATH»

Another attempt to compile produced the same error message.

That is where I am now. I am hopefully missing something simple.

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Re: gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by bjornmu » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:38 pm

The file should be located under /usr/include and this is the default location so you shouldn’t need to tell gcc that. You may first want to double check that you have /usr/include/stdio.h available.

BTW your program won’t compile in any case since you’ve forgotten () after the name of main(). But you didn’t get that far.

Re: gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by JasonMel » Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:37 pm

I have the same problem, and I found my stdio.h in a completely different directory from /usr/include. How do I tell the system where my header files are? And why would my Mint install not know already?

Re: gcc fatal error:stdio.h:No such file or directory

Post by Zetor895 » Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:25 am

JasonMel wrote: I have the same problem, and I found my stdio.h in a completely different directory from /usr/include. How do I tell the system where my header files are? And why would my Mint install not know already?

I am also interested in this. I found stdio.h in /usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/ directory. Is it OK if i make a symbolic link from here to /usr/include?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: it seems not. I got an error message during copiling:
~ $ make hello
cc hello.c -o hello
In file included from hello.c:1:0:
/usr/include/stdio.h:8:26: fatal error: klibc/extern.h: No such file or directory
#include
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [hello] Error 1

EDIT2:
This solved the issue:

 sudo apt-get install build-essential

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