Search Path for compiler executable

[rohith88]

Hi everybody. I installed codeblocks - a cross-platform IDE which requires a C/C++ compiler. The GCC GNU compiler was detected. But when I tried to run the program, many lines were displayed in the terminal window out of which one particular line was disturbing:can't find compiler executable in your search path(GNU GCC compiler)

Where is the gcc compiler located?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

[PabloTwo]

BASH:~/-> which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

[rohith88]

I have searched in the path /usr/bin/. There is no gcc folder there.
One more thing, while trying to run the configure command, I got a message as under:
looking for gcc ...no gcc
looking for cc ... no cc.
Does that mean there is no gcc compiler installed?

[PabloTwo]

Yes, that most certainly means you do not have ggc (the C compiler) installed. You can install it with:

yum install gcc

I would suggest:

yum install gcc libgcc gcc-c++ compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-c++-34 compat-libgcc-296

One way to check whether a package is installed, if you know the package name, is with using rpm:

rpm -q gcc
gcc-4.4.2-20.fc12.i686

If the package is installed, it will display the name-version.arch as shown above. If it's not installed, it will tell you:

rpm -q foo
package foo is not installed