Where is the bluetooth/bluetooth.h located in Linux?

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Yiding picture Yiding · May 2, 2014 · Viewed 51k times · Source

I want to build a c file based on BlueZ but seems no bluetooth.h file in my system.

fatal error: bluetooth/bluetooth.h: No such file or directory

I am sure the bluetooth dongle is running correctly and I have built Bluez successfully.

Update

For my case, I find the bluetooth.h in /user/include/bluetooth folder

Answer

Rahul R Dhobi picture Rahul R Dhobi · May 3, 2014

You need to install libbluetooth-dev package for compiling your code

sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev

That should install the bluetooth header files.

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