site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com andrew% cd wget-1.9.1 andrew% ./configure andrew% cat main.c #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("%s\n", "Hello World!"); } andrew% cc main.c /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib load command 9 unknown cmd field What don't I know? Thanks! Andrew Robinson _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I'm an experienced Mac user and an experienced Unix administrator. So I figured building opening source software on OS X would be a snap. Wrong. The errors I'm getting are so soon and so hard, I figure there must be something basic that I don't understand. Could someone please explain to me what I don't know or point me to some resource that could? Here's what I've done so far. I installed the Developer.mpkg package from the Developer Tools cd. The particular open source package I wanted to build was wget. When I ran configure, here's what I got: configuring for GNU Wget 1.9 checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gcc... no checking for cc... cc checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. So I tried backing up and doing something simple. I tried compiling a "Hello World!" c program: This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com