error: stdio.h: No such file or directory error during make

c, gnu-make, ubuntu

Solution

Your way of building your program is the way to build kernel module and not c program application. and `stdio.h` does not exist in the environment of the kernel development so that's why you get the error:

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

1) If you want to build a linux application then your Makefile is wrong:

You should modify your Makefile

Use the following Makefile:

all: hello

test: test.c
    gcc -o hello hello.c

clean:
    rm -r *.o hello

2) If you want to build a kernel module then your c code is wrong

- YOU CAN NOT use `stdio.h` in the kernel space development. Itdoes not exist in the environment of the kernel development so that's why you get the error

- YOU CAN NOT use `main()` in the kernel module C code

- YOU CAN NOT use `printf()` in the kernel module C code

INSTEAD of using `stdio.h`, you have to use the following include

#include <linux/module.h>   /* Needed by all modules */
#include <linux/kernel.h>   /* Needed for KERN_INFO */

INSTEAD of using `int main() {`, you have to use

int init_module(void) {

INSTEAD of using `printf()` use `printk()`

Use the following hello module instead of your hello code

/*  
 *  hello-1.c - The simplest kernel module.
 */
#include <linux/module.h>   /* Needed by all modules */
#include <linux/kernel.h>   /* Needed for KERN_INFO */

int init_module(void)
{
    printk(KERN_INFO "Hello world 1.\n");

    /* 
     * A non 0 return means init_module failed; module can't be loaded. 
     */
    return 0;
}

void cleanup_module(void)
{
    printk(KERN_INFO "Goodbye world 1.\n");
}

Please refer to the following link for more detail about kernel module development

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