what is needed to compile c?

[anono]

Can someone please tell me w<hat do I need to compile a c program?

I installed libs, devel, headers, still getting this error..
What am I missing? please help.

No matter what I try to compile, I getting this one:

peter@anna:/home/peter/Desktop/appletouch-0.08# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-powerpc/build SUBDIRS=/home/peter/Desktop/appletouch-0.08 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-powerpc/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

[valan]

peter@anna:/home/peter/Desktop/appletouch-0.08# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-powerpc/build SUBDIRS=/home/peter/Desktop/appletouch-0.08 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-powerpc/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

Perhaps you should read the error? It states that the directory you are trying to build in doesn't exist...

[sharkyro]

To compile a C program use GCC:

gcc <file>

The output file will be the file 'a.out'. If you want to specify a different output file do

gcc -o <output_file> <file>

To run the program just do

./<output_file>

For more infomation on GCC

man gcc

[spoon!]

It seems like you are trying to compile a kernel driver and you don't have the kernel headers for your kernel. Try installing the kernel headers. If you tell us your distro, we can give you more specific instructions.

[sharkyro]

Umm, yeah, tell us what is it that you are trying to do? Are you trying to

configure
make
make install

a file or do you need a C compiler for your programs?