On 31/01/2008, hicham <hichamlinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > trying to compile a c application > but I keep getting : > error: stdio.h: No such file or directory > error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory > string.h: No such file or directory > .... etc Just for the record, you should not be able to compile any C code at all, since the GNU C Compiler package "gcc" Requires "glibc-devel", the package that contains the C standard library files for software development. They build a set. When installing gcc, glibc-devel is installed, too. Most likely you did not have "gcc" installed either. Btw, it's a similar thing with C++, "g++" Requires "libstdc++-devel".