configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Today I have tried to compile a software in a Linux machine, when I run

./configure

I got

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for multicast... checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. 

Then I installed gcc with:

apt-get install gcc 

for Ubuntu and for Centos i used

yum install gcc 

and try again, this time I got:

and try again, this time I got:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for multicast... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. 

To solve this I had to install g++

apt-get install g++

And then when I tried again it worked, so to compile software with Linux it seems that you mostly need to install both

gcc and g++

Update: Thanks to Thadeu Penna a friend of the blog for this tip.

using

apt-get install build-essential

Will install all the basic tools for developing in Debian and I know it also works for Ubuntu.