crosstool-ng -- stdio.h: No such file or directory - mips

Question

I would like to cross compile a simple program that uses libncurses on my x86_64. Target system is MIPS.
My crosstool-ng-1.20 build went fine (with sample mips-unknown-elf)
However, a simple hello world ends badly.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("OH HAI.\n");
return 0;
}
--
x86host:~/toolchain$ mips-unknown-elf-gcc -o hello hello.c
hello.c:1:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
#include <stdio.h>
^
compilation terminated.
I'm clearly doing something terribly wrong here, but where do i start?
[Edit]
Thank you markgz. Codesourcery is exactly what i needed.
mips-linux-gnu-gcc.exe -static -o helloStatic hello.c
Proof of concept complete. Now off to compile my ncurses program.
[Switch:/]$ file /mnt/sd3/user/helloStatic
/mnt/sd3/user/helloStatic: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1,
statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, with unknown capability
0x41000000 = 0xf676e75, not stripped
[Switch:/]$ uname -a
Linux Switch 2.6.32.59-cavium-octeon2.cge-cavium-octeon #1
SMP PREEMPT Fri May 10 11:48:14 PDT 2013 mips64 GNU/Linux
[Switch:/]$ /mnt/sd3/user/helloStatic
HOLIDAYS ARE COMING.

Answer 1

You probably needed to build mips-linux-elf-gcc. Are you sure your MIPS target system is configured as big-endian?
Anyway, you can avoid all these problems by downloading the free Mentor/Codesourcery MIPS gnu/gcc cross compilation tool chain from here. This toolchain is available for both Windows and Linux.

Answer 2

root#x86host:~/ncurses-5.9-20141101# export CC=mips-linux-gnu-gcc
root#x86host:~/ncurses-5.9-20141101# ./configure --target=mips-linux-gnu --host=mips-linux-gnu
[..]
root#x86host:~/ncurses-5.9-20141101# make
Then, i copied over a few headers from /usr/include/ to make these go away:
root#x86host:~/ninvaders-0.1.1# make
In file included from ./ncurses.h:1685:0,
from view.h:25,
from view.c:25:
./unctrl.h:54:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
#include <curses.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [view.o] Error 1
root#x86host:~/ninvaders-0.1.1# make
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -c -I. -O -Wall globals.c
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -c -I. -O -Wall view.c
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -c -I. -O -Wall aliens.c
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -c -I. -O -Wall ufo.c
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -c -I. -O -Wall player.c
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -c -I. -O -Wall nInvaders.c
mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static -L /root/ncurses-5.9-20141101/lib -onInvaders globals.o view.o aliens.o ufo.o player.o nInvaders.o -lncurses
root#x86host:~/ninvaders-0.1.1# ls -l nInvaders
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 933003 Nov 6 16:18 nInvaders
root#x86host:~/ninvaders-0.1.1# mv nInvaders nInvaders_IOSXE_MIPS
For future googlers, Makefile is:
CC=mips-linux-gnu-gcc -static
CFLAGS=-O -Wall
LIBS=-lncurses
LDFLAGS=-L /root/ncurses-5.9-20141101/lib
CFILES=globals.c view.c aliens.c ufo.c player.c nInvaders.c
HFILES=globals.h view.h aliens.h ufo.h player.h nInvaders.h
OFILES=globals.o view.o aliens.o ufo.o player.o nInvaders.o
all: nInvaders
nInvaders: $(OFILES) $(HFILES)
$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o$# $(OFILES) $(LIBS)
.c.o:
$(CC) -c -I. $(CFLAGS) $(OPTIONS) $<
clean:
rm -f nInvaders $(OFILES)
End result:
root#x86host:~/ninvaders-0.1.1# file nInvaders_IOSXE_MIPS
nInvaders_IOSXE_MIPS: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS,
MIPS32 rel2 version 1, statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, not stripped
Screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/kf8cu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qbmKYQ2jCA