Hrishikesh
Hrishikesh

Reputation: 13

"no acceptable c compiler found in $PATH" while installing hydra on my windows through cygwin terminal

I found an error while trying to install hydra under Windows via Cygwin. What should I do?

$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake-1.4... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
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.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1373

Answers (1)

kjpires
kjpires

Reputation: 740

By default, Cygwin doesn't install a compiler. I suggest installing "gcc" from Cygwin's setup. (You may need other packages, but start with "gcc" and add packages are needed.)

Upvotes: 2

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