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Clay Bridges
Clay Bridges

Reputation: 11880

OSX cpp (clang) error: no such file or directory: 'c'

I'm on OS X Mavericks 10.9.3. When I run a long cpp command, I get an opaque error:

clang: error: no such file or directory: 'c'

I've narrowed the error-generating command down to

cpp -I "."

Appendix

To address a question in the comments

$ cpp --version
Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0
Thread model: posix

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7556

Answers (2)

Sopan Kurkute
Sopan Kurkute

Reputation: 128

If the installation gives error about clang or clang++ ..then we need to find where clang and clang++ have been installed by using following command on Mac xcodebuild -find clang

The output will be

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang

after this we need to softlink the Xcode or command line binari

ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang /usr/bin/

Upvotes: 0

Clay Bridges
Clay Bridges

Reputation: 11880

By trial & error, I found I can fix the error by removing the space after -I

cpp -I"."

I'm assuming this is a behavior difference between clang cpp and other versions.

I still would like to know a better way to track down these kind of errors.

Upvotes: 4

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