Thread: gcc and cc can't recognize includes

Whenever i try to compile with either gcc or cc i get following error:

fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
#include <sys/types.h>

I did this command that i found with a search

Code:

gcc -xc -E -v -

and i got this as result at end of output

Code:

#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include-fixed
 /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu
 /usr/include
End of search list.

I took a look and all the files are sitting at /usr/include/linux/. Is there any way to tell it to search in this directory?

Explicating your gcc command:
gcc -xc -E -v -
-xc specify source language as c (cpp will attempt to determine base syntax without this)
-E stop after preprocessing stage (no compiler or linker)
-v verbose mode (shows final form of include path, etc.)

Use -I/usr/include/linux/
or maybe better: -isystem/usr/include/linux/ (for vendor-supplied system files)
or add this to your .profile:

C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/linux/
export C_INCLUDE_PATH

(or maybe the CPATH environment variable is more appropriate).

Didn't work but solved it by installing package build-essential. If anyone has same problem this could solve. This was a fresh linux mint installation.