I wrote to reference in the future https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/JsonGlib https://askubuntu.com/questions/466136/right-package-for-json-glib-development-headers on Ubuntu 18.04 $ sudo apt install pkg-config $ sudo apt install glib2.0-dev $ sudo apt install libjson-glib-dev $ gcc -W -Werror -Wall json_p.c -o json_p `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0` ref https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/1148 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/297277/make-doesnt-find-an-installed-library