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[QUOTE]Somehow I assumed that I would be able to compile a basic C program on any linux box - I mean unices are useful like that, right? So I was a bit surprised when I decided to compile a bit of C just now (in fact Christian Wolff's neat little mp3cut tool) and was faced with the following errors:
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chris@snackerjack-lx:/usr/src/mp3cut-0.8$ make
gcc -o mp3cut mp3cut.c
mp3cut.c:25:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
mp3cut.c:26:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
mp3cut.c:27:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
mp3cut.c:28:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory

..etc .. etc
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So what kind of unix comes with make and a compiler, but none of the required dev libraries and headers required to make any normal C program work?   Well a brief google yielded the following solution.. Yup, you guessed it.. you need to install a dev package:
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sudo apt-get install build-essential
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Excuse my rant, but if it's so 'essential', then why isn't it installed as part of the core system?  I find that kinda weird. Anyway, problem fixed and C-sources are now compiling.

christo
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