Re: [Mingw-users] Standard Include Headers

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

David Rasmussen wrote:

> I just installed MinGW on my computer (various packages). But I have one
> major problem: Where are all the C include headers such as stdio.h? All
> of them seem to be missing from my C:\MinGW\include dir. I would think
> that they should be in the gcc-core package, but they are not. And I
> can't imagine which other package they are in.

Gcc is just a compiler.  The C library is separate and not part of the
compiler, so you should never expect to see standard include headers
(parts of the C library) in a gcc package.  You can mix and match them
in many ways, e.g. gcc+newlib, gcc+glibc, gcc+uclibc, gcc+cygwin,
gcc+msvcrt.  The latter is how mingw works, and the headers and import
libraries for the Microsoft C library (MSVCRT.DLL) are in the
mingw-runtime package.

If you don't have mingw-runtime installed then this implies that you
might want to review the documentation.  A working toolchain requires a
lot more than just the gcc packages.  binutils, w32api, and
mingw-runtime are all required.

Brian