compilation error "fatal error: stb_image.h: No such file or directory"

[martian17]

Being an absolute beginner in image processing in C, I ran the most intuitive command that I could come up with: make However, that was met with the following error

$ make
cc -std=gnu99 -O3 qoibench.c -o qoibench -lpng
qoibench.c:41:10: fatal error: stb_image.h: No such file or directory
   41 | #include "stb_image.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:14: qoibench] Error 1

Does this mean that I need to copy over stb_image.h from somewhere else? or do I need to rewrite the source to point the header include to somewhere else? I hope I'm not alone on this. Also, I think there should be an instruction on how to compile on the main README page for beginners like me.

[martian17]

Some information about my system OS: xUbuntu 20.04 cc -v output

$ cc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=cc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:hsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-9 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/gcc-9-Av3uEd/gcc-9-9.4.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,hsa --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 9.4.0 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)

[amstan]

See https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoiconv.c#L5. Essentially you just need to have those downloaded h files in the same folder. Alternatively you can add an extra CC flag with the -I arg to tell it where it is on your system (if you use a package manager to install that lib).

[martian17]

I ended up cloning https://github.com/nothings/stb.git into a different directory, and re-writing each c files to point to that directory. That worked, but I'll try editing the Makefile to add the -l arg from next time. Thank you for the advice!

[vtorri]

please close issue