How do I find the dependencies for a program before trying to compile it?

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Published on 2012-06-27T11:44:08Z Indexed on 2012/06/27 15:26 UTC
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I was trying to cross-compile a program for ARM. While compiling I was very much irritated as I had to look for a number of dependencies e.g fatal error: abc/xyz.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

After ensuring that compiler gets the missing files, when I recompiled, I got same error for about 30 files.

I have no idea if that is normal behaviour.

If it is normal, is there a method which can help the compiler find the dependencies on its own?

If that is not normal, then please explain what I'm doing wrong.

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