Can't compile C program on a Mac after upgrade to Mojave

Question

I have used the gcc command on the terminal to compile C programs but all of a sudden, after an update to my Mac\'s OS (to macOS 10.14 Mojave, and XCode 10.0), I started rec

Answer 1

Had similar problems as the OP

Issue

cat hello.c

#include 
int main() { exit(0); }

clang hello.c

/usr/local/include/stdint.h:2:10: error: #include nested too deeply
etc...

Attempted fix

I installed the latest version of XCode, however, release notes indicated the file mentioned in the previous fix, from Jonathan here, was no longer available.

open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg

Details here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_10_release_notes , under the New Features section.

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Solution that worked for me...

Using details in this comment, https://github.com/SOHU-Co/kafka-node/issues/881#issuecomment-396197724

I found that brew doctor reported I had unused includes in my /usr/local/ folder.

So to fix, I used the command provided by user HowCrazy , to find the unused includes and move them to a temporary folder.

Repeated here...

mkdir /tmp/includes
brew doctor 2>&1 | grep "/usr/local/include" | awk '{$1=$1;print}' | xargs -I _ mv _ /tmp/includes

After running the scripts, the include file issue was gone. nb: I commented on this issue here too.