'readline/readline.h' file not found

You reference a Linux distribution, so you need to install the readline development libraries

On Debian based platforms, like Ubuntu, you can run:

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev 

and that should install the correct headers in the correct places,.

If you use a platform with yum, like SUSE, then the command should be:

yum install readline-devel

This command helped me on linux mint when i had exact same problem

gcc filename.c -L/usr/include -lreadline -o filename

You could use alias if you compile it many times Forexample:

alias compilefilename='gcc filename.c -L/usr/include -lreadline -o filename'