problems in running /configue
 

Hi,
I'm trying to install gridlab-d on my machine. After running the following command:
shahinab@ecel236-01:~/Program Files/GL/gridlab-d/trunk$ ./configure

I got the remaining part:
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/shahinab/Program Files/GL/gridlab-d/trunk':
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
rm: cannot remove `core': Is a directory

What do you think?

Install a C++ compiler. Probably you didn't install enough of gcc. BTW, /home/shahinab/Program Files/GL/gridlab-d/trunk seems a fairly strange directory to be compiling in. did you make the Program Files/ directory or is it part of something else?

./configure
 

Yes, I made the Program Files/ directory .

Assuming you're using Ubuntu:

installing build-essential
 

This is the message I get while trying to install build-essential.

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

The Ubuntu command is :


sudo apt-get install build-essential