#include won't load header in C - c

I've recently been trying to program some simple code for the NES. I wrote a batch file that takes the file I wrote in C and turns it into a .nes file but every time I run it, my C file can't load a header. Here's the script that's causing problems.
#include <nes.h>
Note that I have very little knowledge of C but I'd still like to know what's happening.

where is "nes.h" located when you run the compiler? if it is in the current directory, then
#include "nes.h"
will do.
otherwise you must tell the compiler in which directory to find it using -I parameter
gcc ... -I ...

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C Include custom header file in Geany on Windows 10 compiling with gcc

I'm having an incredibally hard time finding answers to this for Windows. As if the majority of people use Linux...
Anyways, I need a custom CSV parsing library for C. I found one and downloaded the header file. I tried adding #include <csvparser.h> at the top of my c program but of course, it says file not found. I placed the downloaded file in the same directory as the program.
I think i need to be able to specify an absolute path in the include or place the file csvparser.h in the include directory, but I know how to do neither of these things. What is the default include directory in Windows? I use gcc as my compiler. How can i specify an absolute path in the include statement, on windows? i can find no answer to this.
Thanks!
EDIT
Thank you for the quick reply, I seem to have included the file correctly, but now I'mhaving problems using it.
I found the program at https://sourceforge.net/p/cccsvparser/wiki/Home/
I placed it in the source directory and tried using it, bbut when I try the usage example I'm getting an error. This is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "csvparser.h"
#define MAXCHAR 10000
int main() {
// int i = 0;
// file, delimiter, first_line_is_header?
CsvParser *csvparser = CsvParser_new("../MagicProg/Files/MagicProg_csv_ikoria.csv", "|", 1);
return 0;
}
When I try executing this, geany gives me the error:
C:/TDM-GCC-64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/9.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: C:\Users\Geoff\AppData\Local\Temp\ccsiwJPq.o:hello.c:(.text+0x22): undefined reference to `CsvParser_new'
What am I doing wrong? thanks again
If you're including something that's in your source directory you need to use a different style:
#include "csvparser.h"
The angle-brackets form is exclusively for things found in your include path, not in your source directory. That's reserved for things like OS and compiler headers, as well as system-installed libraries.
I made the huge newb error of not including the src files along with the header file. I blame myself. thanks everyone for help

GCC cannot recognize the directory path inside a file

The problem I encountered in using GCC is that I cannot use the command make to build my program because some files contain the paths of their actual location.
Say I have a file named "machine.h", its content is target-pisa/pisa.h. At the same time, in the same working directory, I have a folder named "target-pisa", in which there is a file named "pisa.h"; the actual code of the header file "machine.h" is actually inside the file "pisa.h", which is inside the folder named "target-pisa" located in the same working directory as "machine.h".
Assume for some reason I cannot simply copy and paste the code from "pisa.h" to "machine.h"; that is, I have to stick with what is provided by the prof. The make command does not work in this case in my laptop because it cannot interpret target-pisa/pisa.h as a directory path and open the actual header file "pisa.h" according to the path target-pisa/pisa.h provided in the file "machine.h". Instead, git bash interprets target-pisa/pisa.h as C code (if I am not mistaken); see the figure below.
Some additional info that may be helpful:
In machine.h, there is only one line of code as shown below:
target-pisa/pisa.h
I have checked that almost all .c files in the working directory have #include "machine.h".
How can I solve this problem? Please help, I have been stuck in this for a long time. By the way, my friend also used git bash to do this lab and this problem doesn't happen to him.
I tried to reinstall git bash in order to see if the problem can be solved, but it didn't.
All in all, I want to build the program successfully by using make command in git bash.
machine.h needs to have an #include directive to tell the compiler to pull in the nested header.
#include "target-pisa/pisa.h"
Just writing target-pisa/pisa.h by itself isn't valid C code.

C: How to include the squash compression library?

I'm fairly new to programming with c and i am having a hard time including the squash library into my program.
I cloned the repository and ran ./configure and make sudo make install.
That installed the files:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/squash-0.8.pc
/usr/local/lib/libsquash0.8.so.0.8
/usr/local/lib/libsquash0.8.so.0.8.0
/usr/local/lib/libsquash0.8.so
/usr/local/lib/cmake/Squash-0.8.0/SquashConfig.cmake
/usr/local/bin/squash
And some more files in this directories:
/usr/local/include/squash-0.8/
/usr/local/lib/squash/0.8/plugins/
In the squash examples the library is included by #include <squash/squash.h> but when i am trying to compile it i get fatal error: squash/squash.h: No such file or directory
Also #include <squash-0.8/squash.h> doesnt work because then i get fatal error: hedley/hedley.h: No such file or directory That file is located at
/usr/local/include/squash-0.8/squash/hedley/hedley.h
I guess the solution is pretty simple for an experienced c programmer but i am failing here..
Do i need to set some sort of environment variable to let the compiler find the library?
And how do i link the library to the compiler anyway?
I found something like:
-rdynamic ../squash/libsquash0.8.so.0.8 but could not test it yet because of the error above.
Try to change
#include <squash/squash.h>
to
#include "squash/hedley/hedley.h"
or
#include "<squash-0.8/squash/hedley/hedley.h>"
easier and faster solution would be adding the path to your includes during compilation:
-I/usr/local/include/squash-0.8/squash/

YouCompleteMe suggests only "local" used code

I'm trying to use YCM for the first time so in order to make it work I decided to give a chance for the YCM-Generator, which generates the .ycm_extra_conf.py file automatically based on the makefile.
So far my program is just a simple hello world.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello World!");
return 0;
}
I'm using the CMakeLists.txt trick to generate the makefile.
file(GLOB sources *.h *.c)
add_executable(Foo ${sources})
then after executing the YCM-Generator script, I get this output
Running cmake in '/tmp/tmp_YknVy'... $ cmake
/home/pedro/Desktop/Projetos/teste
Running make... $ make -i -j4
Cleaning up...
Build completed in 1.5 sec
Collected 2 relevant entries for C compilation (0 discarded).
Collected 0 relevant entries for C++ compilation (0 discarded).
Created YCM config file with 0 C flags
YCM plugin does find the .ycm_extra_conf.py file, but the auto-completion doesn't work right, for example, if I type "floa", it doesn't suggests "float", but It only suggests things that I used before like "int" or "printf".
Am I missing something or this is working as intended?
So I fixed it.
For c it does require a .ycm_extra_conf.py , while a friend of mine could make it work without one in c++.
The auto complete only suggest automatically functions that were previously used, if you don't remember a function name you have to press <Ctrl-Space>
YCM-Generator didn't do the job, so I modified the example file myself following the comments.
If you are used to Visual Assist, the auto complete works but it's really weak if compared to VA, which is a shame... I really hope someone port that plugin to Linux.

How do I access a header file/find its location?

I'm running through some source code that I was given, but I'm accessing it through SSH. It includes a header file or two which i'm not familiar with and I don't believe is part of the C libraries that are provided.
Is there a way that I can do this? Where should I look in the system files to see what this header file contains?
The top of the file reads:
23 #include <stdio.h>
24 #include <stdlib.h>
25 #include "support.h"
But there is no support.h file in the .c file's directory...where could it be?
You can try find <project-root-dir> -name support.h. It's likely to be in a directory like include, but of course could be anything. Also if it builds, you can look at the compile command and see what -I directories are supplied. As a last resort you can try locate support.h or find / -name support.h.
Apart form searching the filesystem with either find or locate, if you have access to the makefile, you should find the information in the compilation line after in a -I argument.

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