Simply Rails 2 - Installing SQLite Problem

[fujiprovince]

I am having a problem following the instructions in the book, everything has gone fine up until I have to install SQlite

I get up to the point where I have to write

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

After writing that and pressing enter it then comes up with this error message and I can't go any further

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.4.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.4.0
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Am I doing something wrong or is the book misprinted or something?

Thanks

[ruby-lang]

Mac OS? You'll probably need to install gcc. Have you tried opening the 'config.log' file? It should have more details, like what is the minimum version you'll need.

[fujiprovince]

Yeah sorry on Mac OSX 10.5.4

Why would it not work how the book shows? Seems a bit unprofessional

[michael2727]

Did you install the apple developer tools? I had a similar problem until i went and istalled the xcode files from apple's site (the address is in a footnote on the page or two before you ran into your problem. Not sure if that's the answer but it helped me.

[fujiprovince]

No I didn't install x code. The instructions in the book (which are not very clear to be honest) gave the impression I could skip all of that and all I would need to do is update my rails installation. I'll install x code and see if that helps.

I think it would help if the author had updated this problem on the books website as I have seen a number of people running into this problem.

Thanks for the reply michael2727