hi if you remove the blank between "<" and "stdio.h>" it will compile. regards, vassilios On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm just getting started in programming C. My first attempt: > #include < stdio.h> > void main () { > printf("\nHello World!\n"); > } > > Threw this error: > [dotancohen@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 >