Where is sys/types.h located?

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Where is sys/types.h located?

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I just found out that the <stdlib.h> and <stdio.h> headers are located in the /usr/includefolder in Ubuntu server, but I don't find sys/types.h. And I start to suspect the compiler won't actually use the header file in the /usr/include folder. Is this true, and where is the file located? c  linux share | improve this question edited Aug 6 '12 at 6:10 Jonathan Leffler 300k 37 295 540 asked  Aug 6 '12 at 5:46 mko 3,097 7 43 87

No, header files must be present. Maybe look in /usr/local/include. –   user529758  Aug 6 '12 at 5:49 7   echo "#include <sys/types.h>" | gcc -E -x c - | grep types to see where it is picking it up from–   Mat  Aug 6 '12 at 5:49 @H2CO3 Thanks for pointing it out –   mko  Aug 6 '12 at 5:53 @Mat It works, I find it out, BTW what's the last parameter - used for? –   mko  Aug 6 '12 at 5:55 Perhaps this should be asked at askubuntu or serverfault? –   Paulo Scardine  Aug 6 '12 at 5:56 show 7 more comments

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My Debian box (and hopefully Ubuntu haven't butchered it too much in their zeal) has it in /usr/include/sys/types.h. Your best bet is to first execute: find /usr/include -name types.h then: find / -name types.h if you don't find it in the first one. However, keep in mind that the development stuff may not even be installed. I would imaging a server box is meant to be used as a server and it wouldn't surprise me if the compiler and a bunch of other stuff was not part of the default install (but it would have a lot of server things like ftpd or Apache and so on). If the compiler is locating it somewhere and you just don't know where, you can use something like: echo "#include <sys/types.h>" | gcc -E -x c - | grep /types.h to find out where it's getting it from. Or: echo "#include <stdio.h>" | gcc -E -x c - | grep /stdio.h for the other header you're worried about. Aside: That gcc command line stops after the pre-processing phase (-E), forces the file to be treated as C source code (-x c) and retrieves the program from standard input (-), in this case from the echo statement. The final grep just strips out the unimportant lines. share | improve this answer edited Aug 6 '12 at 5:59 answered  Aug 6 '12 at 5:52 paxdiablo 341k 68 630 1061

Wow, what's an answer, I've learned so much, and the gcc way works, now I found the file –   mko  Aug 6 '12 at 6:13 +1 for explain the flags –   mko  Aug 6 '12 at 6:14 @yozloy, just out of interest, where was it? –   paxdiablo  Aug 6 '12 at 6:21 On Ubuntu 12, I found this at /usr/include/linux/types.h. –   jmervine  May 30 '13 at 0:55 add comment

up vote 2 down vote	The file sys/types.h is located at the /usr/include/sys/types.h if u get this kind of Fatal Error: .../linux/linux_types.h:146:38: fatal error: /usr/include/sys/types.h: No such file or directory Fix by using the following code: sudo apt-get install build-essential flex libelf-dev libc6-dev-amd64 binutils-dev libdwarf-dev share | improve this answer answered  Aug 6 '12 at 6:18 rascaL raajA 41 6
	1   if it's just for sys/types.h I think build-essential should do the trick. –   Lester Cheung  Dec 16 '13 at 5:18 On linux mint 16: sudo apt-get install build-essential was enough. –   Chris Weber  Mar 18 at 20:40 add comment

up vote 0 down vote	On Linux, types.h should be in /usr/include/sys/types.h. share | improve this answer answered  Aug 6 '12 at 5:50 wallyk 32.4k 5 33 73
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up vote 0 down vote	If you have locate command available you can simply use locate: -bash-3.2$ locate sys/types.h /usr/include/sys/types.h /usr/lib/syslinux/com32/include/sys/types.h -bash-3.2$ It's the quickest and simplest way to do it. share | improve this answer edited Nov 27 '12 at 12:54 Nerian 6,690 5 34 66 answered  Aug 6 '12 at 6:15 Zagorulkin Dmitry 3,613 1 8 28
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