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

Question

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!

Vivisect

Are you running ./configure && make in a cygwin environment or something similar such as window's linux subsystem? If yes, you need the gcc that comes with cygwin or Window's Linux Subsystem. – Concentration

I'm on Win10 OS – Vivisect

Indeed you are. But bash is not native to Windows 10, so you must be running Window's subsystem for linux. Try installing gcc from within bash. – Concentration

@Concentration I did. I used this command pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc to install gcc packages, any other suggestions ? – Vivisect

When you are inside bash, what's the value of $PATH? Update the path to add the location of gcc and other binutils. You'll need them all in make. – Concentration

@Concentration after trying $PATH I get this /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath/bin:/c/Program: No such file or directory And for some reason I can't find here gcc. Is that the problem ? or am I missing something ? Thanks in advance. – Vivisect

Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Vivisect

Answer 1

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.

Concentration

For MinGW-w64 installed from MSYS2: export PATH=$PATH:/mingw64/bin. – Capful

Answer 2

I'm on Win10 OS

There is a Visual Studio project file for the compiler. Either use that one, or download the compiler binary for Windows directly from the website.

Drislane

Just got an upvote so I re read the thread, indeed having visual studio makes life easier. Had to install dlib package and had the same issure as this thread, worked out after installing visual studio 15 – Vivisect

Answer 3

If it is centos/redhat machine install full set of development package

$ sudo yum groups install "Development Tools"

it includes gcc,g++,make Id. After installing try again

Lavender

Answer 4

This tread is old, however, it worked for me by enabling "set MSYS2_PATH_TYPE=inherit" in the startup script. Running mingw64.exe in the root of MSYS2 worked as well.

Sacrament

Answer 5

For the future: If on Windows 10 and MSYS2. I uncommented the line

set MSYS2_PATH_TYPE=inherit

on msys2_shell.cmd, so it just inherits the path where you put everything on windows.

I'm surprised this is not the default!

Trevino