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I've installed the GCC packages but C programs still won't compile!

For some reason, Kubuntu dosen't come with gcc, so I used Adept to install it, but when I run ./configure on any C program it detects GCC but then says it can't compile. I'm wondering if I'm missing an important library or if I'm just running my command wrong. I've read the tutorial on compiling programs and I've read the INSTALL file on all the programs I've tried to install, no luck.

Any ideas?

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Originally Posted by Cold Coffee

hi,
i'm bit confused. Are you trying to compile a 'c' language program or trying to install some package ???

regards

I'm trying to install programs from source. GCC won't do it for some reason.

Better install GCC again

regards

./configure is succesfull? If not, post output of it. If it is succesfull, post output of make.
From here, we can not see what goes wrong ;)

Here's the output for ./configure. I've used ArmageTron as an example.

Code:

keaton@sandbox:~/armagetronad-0.2.8.1$ ./configure

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux

checking target system type... i686-pc-linux

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... mawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no

checking for style of include used by make... none

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

keaton@sandbox:~/armagetronad-0.2.8.1$

And here's make:

Code:

keaton@sandbox:~/armagetronad-0.2.8.1$ make

bash: make: command not found

keaton@sandbox:~/armagetronad-0.2.8.1$

So, as far as I can tell, make dosen't exist on my machine. Hell, I'm not even sure what make does, but it's in the INSTALL file and you guys asked for the output, so there ya go.

I think I may have a bad gcc install, I'll try reinstalling and check back in later.

Make sure you install make!

You're indeed missing make. Unfortunately I can not tell you where to find it or how to install it.

make is a utility that makes programmers life easy. It's mostly used with a makefile with rules how to compile a program from sourcecode, but has a lot of other cappabilities.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

To get your compiler working run this command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Come on guys, it wouldn't have been that hard for you to help this user out...

Quote:

Originally Posted by foxmajik

Come on guys, it wouldn't have been that hard for you to help this user out...

Some of us don't use Debian :rolleyes:.

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Originally Posted by Nylex

Some of us don't use Debian :rolleyes:.

Or ubuntu, for that matter ;}

Debian would have been quite happy without the sudo bit

Cheers,
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