GCC should support or run with multilib to eliminate this error.
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ERROR: Fatal error wordsize.h no such file or directory along with other warnings when building Linux kernel
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June 30, 2021Missing `bits/wordsize.h` while compiling
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July 30, 2016c - fatal error: 'bits/types.h' file not found - Stack Overflow
When I try to compile a C program on MAC I get the following error message: /usr/local/include/stdio.h:35:11: fatal error: 'bits/types.h' file not found #include Does anyone ... More on stackoverflow.com
c - "fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory" while compiling HTK - Stack Overflow
I'm getting the following issue when trying to run make on the HTK library: (cd HTKLib && make HTKLib.a) \ || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; make[1]: Entering directory '/h... More on stackoverflow.com
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github.com › Zygo › bees › issues › 140
cannot compile bees due to missing bits/wordsize.h · Issue #140 · Zygo/bees
January 12, 2020 - $ make fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /var/home) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). make PREFIX=/usr LIBEXEC_PREFIX=/usr/lib/bees ETC_PREFIX=/etc TAG="UNKNOWN" -C lib make[1]: Entering directory '/var/home/user/bin/bees-0.6.2/lib' g++ -Wall -Wextra -Werror -I../include -fpic -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c++11 -Wold-style-cast -M -MF .depends/chatter.dep -MT chatter.o chatter.cc In file included from /usr/include/c++/9/functional:48, from ../include/crucible/chatter.h:4, from chatter.cc:1: /usr/include/c++/9/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/c++config.h:3:10: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory 3 | #include <bits/wordsize.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated.
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Bug #2067082 “bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory” : Bugs : glibc package : Ubuntu
Compilation fails due to assuming "usr/include/" contains a folder "bits/", which in my case should contain the files "wordsize.h" and "timesize.h".
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r/kisslinux on Reddit: ERROR: Fatal error wordsize.h no such file or directory along with other warnings when building Linux kernel
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The picture is in the comments section. Can someone please help? Im stuck on this error for about 2hrs ( + 1hr bc of the post time)
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bits/wordsize.h appears to be glibc specific, which to me means it is likely that there's something wrong with either your installation to this point or with your kernel configuration.
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Missing `bits/wordsize.h` while compiling · Issue #220 · flatpak/flatpak
July 30, 2016 - Running setup.py install for netifaces Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-q4nhh9e0/netifaces/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-92nrgnit-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user: running install running build running build_ext checking for getifaddrs...not found. checking for getnameinfo...not found. checking for socket IOCTLs...not found. checking for optional header files...none foun
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make error gcc - lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org - narkive
=== /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory make[5]: *** [_muldi3.o] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory -- Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav Upon further investigation, I only have the following 2 stub files $ cd /usr/include/gnu $ ls · Post by Rajinder Yadav libc-version.h lib-names.h stubs-64.h stubs.h doing a cat of stubs.h I notice bits/wordsize.h is included, so I check it out $ cat stubs.h ==========OUTPUT ======== /* This file selects the right generated file of `__stub_FUNCTION' macros based on the architecture being compiled for.
Gentoo
bugs.gentoo.org › 715476
715476 – dev-lang/teyjus-2.1-r2 : ../.../standardlib.h: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory
August 9, 2022 - Gentoo's Bugzilla – Bug 715476 dev-lang/teyjus-2.1-r2 : ../.../standardlib.h: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory Last modified: 2022-08-09 06:51:12 UTC node [vulture]
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foolish glibc error * / Programming & Scripting / Arch Linux Forums
/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory I found this in stubs.h: /* This file selects the right generated file of `__stub_FUNCTION' macros based on the architecture being compiled for. */ #include <bits/wordsize.h> #if __WORDSIZE == 32 # include <gnu/stubs-32.h> #elif __WORDSIZE == 64 # include <gnu/stubs-64.h> #else # error "unexpected value for __WORDSIZE macro" #endif
Gentoo
bugs.gentoo.org › 712842
712842 – sys-fabric/opensm-3.3.24 : ../.../cl_debug_osd.h: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory
February 9, 2022 - Gentoo's Bugzilla – Bug 712842 sys-fabric/opensm-3.3.24 : ../.../cl_debug_osd.h: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory Last modified: 2022-02-09 07:03:31 UTC node [vulture]
Gentoo
bugs.gentoo.org › 829176
829176 – sys-cluster/galera-26.4.17 - galerautils/.../gu_arch.h: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory
March 26, 2024 - Gentoo's Bugzilla – Bug 829176 sys-cluster/galera-26.4.17 - galerautils/.../gu_arch.h: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory Last modified: 2025-09-26 08:33:33 UTC node [vulture]
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[Bug 2067082] [NEW] bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory
May 24, 2024 - ccache cc -c -o dlls/winecrt0/... from /home/test/wine-git/dlls/winecrt0/dll_entry.c:29: /usr/include/features-time64.h:20:10: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory 20 | #include <bits/wordsize.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated....
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Bug#1027966: building of cross-toolchain-base broken, wrong assumption of dpkg-buildinfo
January 5, 2023 - Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.21.16 ... from /usr/include/unistd.h:25, from <stdin>:1: /usr/include/features-time64.h:20:10: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory 20 | #include <bits/wordsize.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated....
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Linux/TMDX654IDKEVM: Error while Cross-Compilation - Processors forum - Processors - TI E2E support forums
May 7, 2019 - Looking into the "wordsize.h" file I can see that it has the following processor directives: #if __MHWORDSIZE == 32 #ifdef _MIPS_SIM #if _MIPS_SIM == _ABIO32 #include <bits/wordsize-32.h> #elif _MIPS_SIM == _ABIN32 #include <bits/wordsize-n32.h> #else #error "Unknown _MIPS_SIM" #endif #else /* _MIPS_SIM is not defined */ #include <bits/wordsize-32.h> #endif #elif __MHWORDSIZE == 64 #include <bits/wordsize-64.h> #else #error "Unknown __WORDSIZE detected" #endif /* matches #if __WORDSIZE == 32 */
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The -m32 is telling gcc to compile for a 32-bit platform. On a 64-bit platform, gcc normally only comes with 64-bit libraries. You have two options:
Install 32-bit headers and libraries. Here's how you'd do this on Ubuntu.
Run this command:
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilibCompile for 64-bit instead. Modify this line in the file named
configure:CFLAGS="-m32 -ansi -D_SVID_SOURCE -DOSS_AUDIO -D'ARCH=\"$host_cpu\"' $CFLAGS"Delete
-m32, giving you:CFLAGS="-ansi -D_SVID_SOURCE -DOSS_AUDIO -D'ARCH=\"$host_cpu\"' $CFLAGS"Run
./configure, thenmake clean, thenmakeHowever, I would recommend against this approach. The library authors went out of their way to make this build for 32 bits on a 64 bit system, and I can't guarantee that it will work correctly if you do this. (It does compile, though.)
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Below is one way to debug and fix this issue. Since most linux installations differ in one way or another, YMMV.
- Find which package installed
libc-header-start.h.
$ dpkg -S libc-header-start.h
libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h
On a working system, /usr/include/bits is a symlink to /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits. Running dpkg search gives us:
$ dpkg -S /usr/include/bits
libc6-dev-i386: /usr/include/bits
Installing libc6-dev-i386 creates the symlink and the error is addressed.
However, subsequently I ran into a linker error with the linker not being able to find libgcc (-lgcc). Apparently Linux default linker needs libgcc in most cases. Further debugging the issue with linker verbosity enabled lead me to missing lib32gcc-10-dev package.
In short, unless a very controlled build environment is desired, just install gcc-multilib package when using -m32 (needed for gcc or clang). For C++, g++-multilib is also required.
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6.12. GCC-4.1.2 make error.
August 12, 2008 - Hello all, I'm currently stuck on: Linux From Scratch - Version 6.3, Chapter 6. Installing Basic System Software, 6.12. GCC-4.1.2 I received the
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Bug#1104398: cross-toolchain-base-mipsen: FTBFS randomly: features-time64.h:20:10: fatal error: bits/wordsize.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:1141: stamp-dir/dc-libc6-dev_2.41-7_mips64el.deb] > Error 255 The full build log is available from: http://qa-logs.debian.net/2025/04/28/cross-toolchain-base-mipsen_32_unstable.log You can find other build logs (including successful ones) in: http://qa-logs.debian.net/2025/04/28/ All bugs filed during this archive rebuild are listed at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-20250428;users=lu...@debian.org or: https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=na&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=ftbfs-20250428&fusertaguser=lu...@debian.org&allbugs=1&cseverity=1&ctags=1&caffected=1#results A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS .
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Each supported architecture under Linux defines BITS_PER_LONG in <asm/types.h> to the length of the C long type, which is the system word size.
From http://www.makelinux.net/books/lkd2/ch19lev1sec2
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Word Size in any architecture is equivalent to of size of long datatype.
So use
#define __WORDSIZE sizeof(long)
You can alternatively use size of pointer too.
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