no make, no c complier - why and how

[orleans]

the message I get is...
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 whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

i have been out of this linux thing for a while, I also have severe lead poisoning thus my memory is very bad, is there any way to get make and a c complier working on this distro 5.10? please help

[kubicle]

Re: no make, no c complier - why and how

Install package 'build-essential'

[orleans]

Re: no make, no c complier - why and how

Wow - thanks!

Got that working, can't find GTK+2.x error now.. Not my day..

i have been installing distros since yesterday, I like this one a lot. I need to setup everything up to run my Orinoco card so I can work on the City of Orleans wireless system.. I see that it finds my card but I have a lot of installing and patching to do..

Any ideas on this?

Thanks in advance!
--Kevin