gcc not compiling

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 31 October 2005 14:03, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>I'm just getting started in programming C. My first attempt:
>#include < stdio.h>

Well, for starters, it probably doesn't like the space between the <
and the s in < stdio.h>
Thats what is occasionally known as  typu  :-)

>void main () {
>    printf("\nHello World!\n");
>}
>
>Threw this error:
>[dotancohen at localhost ~]$ gcc hello.c
>hello.c:1:20: error:  stdio.h: No such file or directory
>hello.c: In function 'main':
>hello.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
>function 'printf'
>hello.c:2: warning: return type of 'main' is not 'int'
>hello.c:4:2: warning: no newline at end of file
>
>So I googled for "1:20: error:  stdio.h: No such file or directory"
>and found a post that suggests that the answer to the problem is found
>in the gcc manual. So I started reading it, but it is long and I'm not
>finding anything!
>
>I think that I'm missing a library stdio.h but I don't know where to
>find it, and where to put it once I do find it. Or am I completly
>wrong? The error message is pretty clear.
>
>Dotan Cohen
>http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_can_i_be_safe_online.html

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