Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install

26 Sep 2008

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From: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: <dovecot@dovecot.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
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tonj wrote:
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Hildebrandt"
<Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
To: <dovecot@dovecot.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
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tonj <tonj@freeuk.com>:

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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.
so where does a newbie get this complier?