macOS compiling C on OS X Leopard

[Dr_Maybe]

I have the dev. tools installed, but when trying to compile a simple hello world "gcc hello.c" app I get:

stdio.h: No such file or directory

How do I compile a simple C app on Leopard?

It's hard googling for the problem, because "c" is just a letter.

 

[SydneyDev]

Make sure it's #include <stdio.h> and not #include <stdio>

 

[toddburch]

Post your code.

 

[ChrisA]

I have the dev. tools installed, but when trying to compile a simple hello world "gcc hello.c" app I get:

stdio.h: No such file or directory

How do I compile a simple C app on Leopard?

It's hard googling for the problem, because "c" is just a letter.

The first thing to suspect is that the error message is literally true, that you don't have a file named "stdio.h". Use Spotlight to check. You should have it if you installed the Apple dev. tools, xcode and all that, But the keyword here is "should".

About Google: The best way to use it is to cut and paste gcc's error message and place it in quotes. So in this case it would be "stdio.h: No such file or directory" (with quotes)

 

[Dr_Maybe]

You made me look at the code again

I had just copy-pasted it from a tutorial. There was an error in it, so I fixed it and then it worked.

Thanks for the replies. It works now