[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install

[Seth Mattinen]

tonj wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Hildebrandt"
> <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>
> To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
> 
> 
>> * tonj <tonj at freeuk.com>:
>>
>>> checking for gcc... no
>>> checking for cc... no
>>> checking for cl.exe... no
>>> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>>
>> No compiler, no compilation. Easy?
> 
> not for a newbie no.
> what's a complier?


It compiles source code into a binary executable.

~Seth