GCC can’t find stdio.h in Alpine Linux

Install musl-dev (in addition to the gcc compiler)

apk add musl-dev

You need to install it separately because in Alpine Linux, the package GCC doesn’t depend on libc-dev for good reason:

You can use gcc to compile things without libc, for example hypervisors firmware etc.

And August Klein also noted that in Debian, GCC only recommends libc-dev for the same reason (but most people don’t do --no-install-recommends anyway).

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