Command not found cc, make error 127

I am trying to install shc on Ubuntu 18.04

wget
tar xvfz shc-3.8.9.tgz
cd shc-3.8.9
make

But receive the following error:

cc -Wall shc.c -o shc
make: cc: Command not found
makefile:31: recipe for target 'shc' failed
make: *** [shc] Error 127

The makefile:

# Makefile
#
INSTALL_PATH = /usr/local
# For SCO
CFLAGS = -b elf -O -D_SVID
# For IRIX
CFLAGS = -xansi -fullwarn -O3 -g0
# For Solaris
CFLAGS = -fast -xO4 -s -v -Xa
# For HPUX
CFLAGS = -Wall -O -Ae
# For OSF1
CFLAGS = -w -verbose -fast -std1 -g0
# For GNU C compiler
CFLAGS = -Wall # -O6 -pedantic
#SHELL = /bin/sh
SHCFLAGS = -v -T # Add -T option to allow binary to be traceable
all: shc ask_for_test
shc: shc.c $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $@.c -o $@
ask_for_test: @echo '*** �Do you want to probe shc with a test script?' @echo '*** Please try... make test'
test: make_the_test ask_for_strings
make_the_test: match.x @echo '*** Running a compiled test script!' @echo '*** It must show files with substring "sh" in your PATH...' ./match.x sh
match.x: shc match @echo '*** Compiling script "match"' CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./shc $(SHCFLAGS) -f match
ask_for_strings: @echo '*** �Do you want to see strings in the generated binary?' @echo '*** Please try... make strings'
strings: make_the_strings ask_for_expiration
make_the_strings: match.x @echo '*** Running: "strings -n 5 'match.x'"' @echo '*** It must show no sensible information...' strings -n 5 match.x
ask_for_expiration: @echo '*** �Do you want to probe expiration date?' @echo '*** Please try... make expiration'
expiration: til_yesterday ask_for_install
til_yesterday: shc match @echo '*** Compiling "match" to expired date' CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./shc $(SHCFLAGS) -vv -e `date "+%d/%m/%Y"` -f match @echo '*** Running a compiled test script!' @echo '*** It must fail showing "./match.x: has expired!"' ./match.x
ask_for_install: @echo '*** �Do you want to install shc?' @echo '*** Please try... make install'
install: shc @echo '*** Installing shc and shc.1 on '$(INSTALL_PATH) @echo -n '*** �Do you want to continue? '; read ANS; case "$$ANS" in y|Y|yes|Yes|YES) ;; *) exit 1;; esac; install -c -s shc $(INSTALL_PATH)/bin/ install -c -m 644 shc.1 $(INSTALL_PATH)/man/man1/
clean: rm -f *.o *~ *.x.c
cleanall: clean rm -f shc *.x

I have no idea how to fix this error. Can anyone help?

2 Answers

cc is an alias for the GNU C compiler (gcc). You can install it as follows:

 sudo apt install gcc

If, for some reason, the gcc compiler is already installed, but the symbolic link /usr/bin/cc is missing, you can also do:

 make CC=gcc

sudo apt install build-essential

This will install a C compiler (providing the cc command) as well as other tools that you may need for building software from source.