help needed using terminal

Whenever i use the terminal to compile and install source code, i get this error. configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH What do i do??.

Everything Linux 1798 This topic was started by iamroot, 2004-06-26 08:49

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iamroot

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#127746

2004-06-26 10:49

Whenever i use the terminal to compile and install source code, i get this error.

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

What do i do??

SGI 1600SW monitor

kerberos

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shobhit

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#127747

2004-06-26 13:59

do you have a compiler installed on your system? obviously you don't and that is needed to compile the source code. so first install a c compiler like 'gcc' on your machine. you can get gcc from fsf.org