configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

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Tony Tannous picture Tony Tannous · Nov 23, 2016 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I am trying to Build and Install the Apache Thrift compiler and libraries

I had to type this command is shown in instructions ./configure && make But I get this error:

checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/PATH/TO/thrift-0.9.3':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

When I type in my command prompt gcc --version I get this

gcc (GCC) 5.3.0 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

It finds the gcc compiler. However, when I run it from my msys2 Shell

bash: gcc: command not found

The path in Environment variables is correct. C:\MinGW\bin

Yet it canno't find gcc

Thanks in advance!

Answer

alvits picture alvits · Nov 23, 2016

The path to your gcc compiler is not in the PATH.

You may add it before you run make.

export PATH=${PATH}:/c/MinGW/bin
./configure && make

Goodluck.

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