Fatal error math h no such file or directory

I’m trying to compile a c program on a newly-installed Cinnamon 16. I didn’t do anything special to install any development tools.

The function being compiled uses math so includes the math library:

But when I use a make file that issues this comilation command:

gcc -c -pedantic -Wall -W -O -lm -o iauA2af.o a2af.c

I get this error message:

In file included from a2af.c:1:0:
sofa.h:22:18: fatal error: math.h: No such file or directory
 #include "math.h"
                  ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [iauA2af.o] Error 1

I am guessing that either the math library header files is in some package I haven’t installed, or that some search path needs to be modified to find the include file. Suggestions?

On another forum I found a poster with a similar problem who issued this command:

sudo apt-get install build-essintial

I tried that and it solved my problem.

I downloaded and try to installed the package «wfconvert» from this link . but I got some error.

here what I did:

1. copy the wfconvert folder in root «/»

2. cd /wfconvert/build/

   root@geant4:/wfconvert/build# cmake ..
   
   -- Current revision : 65 modified on 2013-01-16 22:14:53 +0330 (Wed, 16 Jan 2013)  
   -- Found mpi.h and libraries. Check for working mpi compiler  
   -- MPI is disabled  
   -- Failed to link LAPACK, BLAS, ATLAS libraries with environments. Going to search standard paths.  
   -- LAPACK_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/liblapack.so  
   -- BLAS_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libblas.so  
   -- CXX compiler flags:  -g -O3 -ftemplate-depth-60 -Drestrict=__restrict__ -funroll-all-loops   -finline-limit=1000 -Wno-deprecated  -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fopenmp  
   -- CC  compiler flags:  -O3 -Drestrict=__restrict__ -funroll-all-loops   -finline-limit=1000 -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer  -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3  
   -- LIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/libxml2  
   -- LIBXML2_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libxml2.so  
   -- HDF5_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include  
   -- HDF5_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libhdf5.so  
   -- FFTW_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include  
   -- FFTW_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libfftw3.so  
   -- Ready to build qmcpack  
   -- Configuring done  
   -- Generating done  
   -- Build files have been written to: /wfconvert/build  
   

3. make command

   root@geant4:/wfconvert/build# make
   
   [  1%] Building C object src/einspline/CMakeFiles/einspline.dir/bspline_create.c.o  
   In file included from /wfconvert/src/einspline/bspline_base.h:24:0,  
            from /wfconvert/src/einspline/bspline_create.h:24,  
            from /wfconvert/src/einspline/bspline_create.c:21:  
   /wfconvert/build/src/Common/config.h:65:17: fatal error: cmath: No such file or directory  
    #include <cmath> 
            ^
   compilation terminated.    
   make[2]: *** [src/einspline/CMakeFiles/einspline.dir/bspline_create.c.o] Error 1  
   make[1]: *** [src/einspline/CMakeFiles/einspline.dir/all] Error 2  
   make: *** [all] Error 2  
   

I don`t know what to do!
here is my cmath file list:

root@geant4:/# find -name cmath
./opt/root5.32.00/cint/cint/include/cmath
./app/gcc/4.8.0/include/c++/4.8.0/ext/cmath
./app/gcc/4.8.0/include/c++/4.8.0/cmath
./app/gcc/4.8.0/include/c++/4.8.0/tr1/cmath
./usr/include/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/cmath
./usr/include/boost/tr1/tr1/cmath
./usr/include/c++/4.5/cmath
./usr/include/c++/4.5/tr1_impl/cmath
./usr/include/c++/4.5/tr1/cmath
./usr/include/c++/4.6/cmath
./usr/include/c++/4.6/tr1/cmath
./usr/share/gccxml-0.9/GCC/2.95/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/stage1-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/stage1-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/stage1-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/tr1/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/tr1/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/include/c/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/include/c_global/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/include/c_std/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/include/tr1/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/26_numerics/headers/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/tr1/8_c_compatibility/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/prev-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/prev-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/cmath
./gcc-build/gcc-4.8.0/prev-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/tr1/cmath

and

root@geant4:/# uname -a
Linux geant4 3.0.0-32-generic-pae #51-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 21 16:09:48 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Please help me.

With gcc it looks this:

gcc example.c -o example -lm   

for more precise compiling (with debugging output in case of failures) you do this:

gcc -ggdb -Wall example.c -o example -lm

lm is here the linking with the math-library of gcc (there is #include math.h at the beginning of example.c).