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Charles
Asked: 2010-06-03 12:22:55 +0800 CST

Where does gcc keep its built-in include directory paths

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GCC has built in include directories for certain standard headers. I just need to know where this list is. My newly compiled gcc will not compile my little test C++ program because it cannot find standard headers. I think it fails because of some config options I used to make my file system more organized. I set the bindir and libdir, which I think might have screwed up the built-in include paths for some reason.

Program (dummy.c):

#include <iostream>
void main(){}

Command:

g++ dummy.c

Error:

dummy.c:1:20: fatal error: iostream: No such file or directory
linux gcc

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The preprocessor can tell you what it uses 

    cpp -x c++ -v

...

    #include "..." search starts here:
    #include <...> search starts here:
     /usr/include/c++/4.4
     /usr/include/c++/4.4/i486-linux-gnu
     /usr/include/c++/4.4/backward
     /usr/local/include
     /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/include
     /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/include-fixed
     /usr/include/i486-linux-gnu
     /usr/include
    End of search list.

    You can add directories to the search path by setting the C_INCLUDE_PATH and/or CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH environment variiables

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