configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

[ewarmour]

Using Install a more powerful 'vi' editor (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010421114134645) hint I got to the confiuge part and got this error:

/vim-5.7>./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
/vim-5.7>

I thought OS10 had a complier. Where do I get, and how do I install gcc on Darwin?

Thanks a lot -E

[ashill]

The compiler is not installed in a default install of OS X. You have to download the developer tools from Apple (>100 MB, I think); register a free online developer account at connect.apple.com.

I believe (although I could be wrong) that the developer tools install a compiler that is called cc, although it's actually a slightly modified version of gcc, the GNU compiler. Therefore, you don't really need to grab gcc from elsewhere (but you can if you want to).

-Alex Hill

[ewarmour]

that did it thanks a bunch -E