On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:25:45PM +0000, Matt M wrote: > I am just getting started with kernel module development, and I can't get > anything to compile. > > I get the following errors: > > In file included from main.c:1:0: > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/init.h:142:13: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, > ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘load_default_modules’ > void __init load_default_modules(void); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/init.h:143:12: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, > ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘init_rootfs’ > int __init init_rootfs(void); > ^~~~~~~~~~~ > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/init.h:285:13: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, > ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘parse_early_param’ > void __init parse_early_param(void); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/init.h:286:13: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, > ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘parse_early_options’ > void __init parse_early_options(char *cmdline); > > > The errors go on and on, but the majority look like that. > > My code: > > #include <linux/init.h> > #include <linux/module.h> > > int main() { > return 0; > } > > > The compile command: > gcc -I /usr/src/linux/include/ main.c That's not how you compile a Linux kernel module, sorry. Please read the very good documentation for how to set up a Makefile for building a kernel module. It's in the kernel's Documentation/ directory. best of luck, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies