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C compiler cannot create executables

By Ettore

Every time I install a new ubuntu distro and I try to compile the first application I have this:

configure:error: C compiler cannot create executables

and this is the solution:

sudo apt-get install g++

So, I hope not to forget this next time :)

[EDIT: Manish, whose Linux expertise is much better than mine ;) , correctly suggests:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

which is in fact less dirty than my solution]

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4 Responses to “C compiler cannot create executables”

  1. Manish Says:
    January 29, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    actually I think you can also just set yourself up for general/generic development stuff by doing:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential

  2. Ettore Says:
    January 29, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    Thanks, edited.
    Besides, you know I’m a Mac guy :)

  3. bharathy Says:
    May 2, 2008 at 8:03 am

    hi
    i got the same error but apt-get command not working for that what can i do
    plaese anybody helpme

  4. Ettore Says:
    May 2, 2008 at 8:24 am

    Hi, what do you receive exactly when you write:
    sudo apt-get install build-essential
    ?

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