Compilation error: “stddef.h: No such file or directory”

Question

Whenever I try to compile this code it always ends up with this error:

    In file included from /usr/include/wchar.h:6:0,
             from /usr/lib/gcc/i68         


        

Answer 1

I had this error on a fresh MinGW install, it had nothing to do with the installed packages mentioned in the current accepted answer by "Prasanth Karri". In my case the issue was caused by -nostdinc in my Makefile. I actually only needed that compiler flag when building for a different target platform (not when using MinGW) so I fixed the issue by removing that flag from MinGW builds.