Re: [Rpcemu] Problem with build-essential on Linux Mint

In article <mpro.qt8xf6007cefk03ex.pittdj@pittdj.co.uk>,
David Pitt <pittdj@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> John McCartney, on 16 May, wrote:

<snip>

> Using a new installation of Linux Mint 20.1 on a Mac VM
> gcc can be seen to be already present.

> djp@LinuxMint20:~/RPCEmu/rpcemu-0.9.3$ gcc --version gcc
> (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0

> In the hope that build-essential might not be essential I
> tried my luck.

> djp@LinuxMint20:~/RPCEmu/rpcemu-0.9.3/src/qt5$
> ./buildit.sh Project ERROR: Cannot run compiler 'g++'.
> Output:
> ===================
> =================== Maybe you
> forgot to setup the environment?

> g++ is obviously essential, and missing, so it was
> installed

> djp@LinuxMint20:~/RPCEmu/rpcemu-0.9.3/src/qt5$ sudo
> apt-get install g++

> RPCEmu then built.

Thanks for this David. I'll add your comments to what Frank
has mentioned and try and get my head round it all when I'm
not keeping other balls in the air!

John

--
John McCartney
j.mccartney@blueyonder.co.uk

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