can't a compiling C program

[Laween Maher]

hallo for all octave users

Any body can tel me about how to use *.c program. I have seen the
mailing list for 95-98 and could not find useful things for me 
I can compile c++ programs but not C programs using mkoctfile *.c. As I
know that it should be possible while mkoctfiles -h show that.

I use  2.0.13 and the exaples of errors are like below

"
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/variables.h:36: string: No
such file or directory
In file included from
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/variables.h:38,
                 from
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/defun-int.h:26,
                 from
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/defun-dld.h:30,
                 from
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/oct.h:33,
                 from test.c:1:
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/ov.h:30: cstdlib: No such
file or directory
/users/tsp/maher/octave-v_13/include/octave/ov.h:32: string: No such
file or directory
"
if that will not work at least I need to know please?
Thanks for every body.
Maher