bash: gcc command not found

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bash: gcc command not found

hi,

I keep on getting this error message. I have installed xcode 3.2
and it did not solve the problem.
please help asap.

Thanks

macbook pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 21, 2010 4:21 PM

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ericmeyers

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Nov 21, 2010 4:42 PM in response to harshmehta

Xcode should have done the trick. Any chance you modified your PATH environment variable?

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J.C

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Nov 21, 2010 4:42 PM in response to harshmehta

Hi there

What is the output from the following terminal command?


echo $PATH

J.C

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harshmehta Author

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Nov 21, 2010 4:44 PM in response to J.C

It shows this path

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

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harshmehta Author

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Nov 21, 2010 4:45 PM in response to ericmeyers

I haven;t done anything but installing xcode.

Harsh

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ericmeyers

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Nov 21, 2010 4:49 PM in response to harshmehta

gcc is in /usr/bin. Very odd it can't be found. What happens when you type /usr/bin/gcc ?

If it still can't be found I would guess you didn't install Xcode properly (Unix Development Support?)

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harshmehta Author

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Nov 21, 2010 4:51 PM in response to ericmeyers

probably
as typing the command says no such directory
leme try to install again

thanks for the tip

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phigas

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Jan 18, 2011 9:40 AM in response to harshmehta

I just fell on this forum, I have the same problem: I found gcc: it appears it has been moved during installation of developer tools to the location: /Developer/usr/bin, (from /usr/bin) so I tried to launch gcc by typing the whole path /Developer/usr/bin/gcc, with a source file.c. gcc works now this way, but the trouble is that it doesn't find the #include files, which have probably also been moved in some directory in /Developer/... I also tried by adding the line export PATH=$PATH:/Developer/usr/bin to the file ~/.profile. That cures the necessity to write the whole path for gcc, but not the not finding of the #include. By the way, working in C through Xcode works properly.

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Ron Pugh

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Jul 10, 2012 10:00 PM in response to phigas

I'm also having this issue, Xcode works fine, from the terminal nothing works as the enviornment has been changed ( or not set ) by Xcode..., this is Lion with the newest Xcode tools, before the upgrade everything worked.

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BobHarris

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Jul 11, 2012 6:09 AM in response to Ron Pugh

What happens if you just try 'cc' instead of 'gcc'

Apple has switched over the the '/usr/bin/clang' compiler, which would explain XCode working fine.

While I have a /usr/bin/gcc, it is a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc -> llvm-gcc-4.2 (cc points to the same llvm-gcc-4.2), AND I do not know if this is from installing XCode recently or form my older versions of Mac OS X and XCode.

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Aug 24, 2012 1:33 AM in response to harshmehta

Open XCode-> Preferences->Downloads-> and Install "Command Line Tools".

Or Go To Developer.apple.com/downloads-> Sign in-> Download and install Command Line Tools for XCode for your OSX version.

Restart your terminal and gcc and make should work then.

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Answer 11

Mar 25, 2013 2:18 PM in response to Francisco D Anconia

I also had this problem. Francisco's response solved it for me.

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