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Cannot find appropriate C compiler on this system

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i got this error when using ./bootstrap command for installing cmake

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CMake 3.18.0, Copyright 2000-2020 Kitware, Inc. and Contributors

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Error when bootstrapping CMake:

Cannot find appropriate C compiler on this system.

Please specify one using environment variable CC.

See cmake_bootstrap.log for compilers attempted.

i checked for gcc and got

gcc --version

bash: /usr/bin/gcc: No such file or directory



whereis gcc

gcc: /usr/lib/gcc /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz

i checked cmake_bootstrap.log file and got

./bootstrap: 803: ./bootstrap: /usr/local/bin/gcc-7: not found

Test failed to compile

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answered 1 Year ago trousransla · Accepted Answer

It looks like you don't have gcc installed.

In case you specifically need gcc-7, you can install it with

sudo apt install gcc-7

Otherwise you can install the package gcc or build-essential(which would provide a later version of gcc).

In case this program bootstrap wants to have gcc-7 at the specific location /usr/local/bin/ and that cannot be changed, you can symlink it.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-7 /usr/local/bin/gcc-7