[SOLVED] Problem compiling hello world on Linux Mint 17.1

[bstuckmeyer]

I just purchased Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon (64 bit) on a bootable USB flash drive from OSDisc.com. The system boots and the desktop loads just fine. When I try to compile the following hello world program (via gcc hello.c -o hello):

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Hello world.\n");
return(0);
}

I receive the error:

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

When I run "locate stdio.h" it reports:

/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h

If I attempt to compile by adding -I/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include to the gcc command line, stdio.h is found but I receive the following messages:

In file included from hello.c:1:0:
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h: In function ‘fileno’:
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h:39:17: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
return (int)(size_t) __f - 1;
^
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h: In function ‘fdopen’:
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h:43:30: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
#define __create_file(__fd) ((FILE *)(size_t)((__fd) + 1))
^
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h:56:12: note: in expansion of macro ‘__create_file’
return __create_file(__fd);
^
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h: At top level:
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h:74:17: warning: conflicting types for built-in function ‘fwrite’ [enabled by default]
__extern size_t fwrite(const void *, size_t, size_t, FILE *);
^
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h:97:14: warning: conflicting types for built-in function ‘snprintf’ [enabled by default]
__extern int snprintf(char *, size_t n, const char *, ...);
^
/usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/stdio.h:98:14: warning: conflicting types for built-in function ‘vsnprintf’ [enabled by default]
__extern int vsnprintf(char *, size_t n, const char *, va_list);
^
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Seems like, at a minimum, stdio.h is not in the correct location and should probably be in /usr/include/linux along with the other standard C header files. Is there a development package that I need to install?

Any help will be appreciated.

[xenopeek]

Have you installed the package build-essential? You need to install that for full library and compiler stack for C/C++ compilation.

[bstuckmeyer]

I installed build-essential and that fixed my problem. Thank you very much.

[Ph0z3]

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