Missing Make command in Build environment

[nortonglider]

Howdy folks!

I'm relatively new to programming, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting the Qt IDE set up and working correctly. When I try to build anything, I get the following message:

Could not find make command: make in the build environment
Error while building project HelloWorld
When executing build step 'Make'
Canceled build.


I'm taking this to mean that the IDE is looking for something that isn't there, or at least isn't where it's supposed to be. I've installed the complete and most recent Qt IDE package, so I'm not sure why anything would be missing. I've heard of some IDEs being reliant on Apple's XCode--Netbeans comes to mind-- so I tried installing XCode, then reinstalling Qt. This didn't fix my issue. XCode does correctly compile and run the basic Hello World application, however. I'm using Mac OS X version 10.5.8, if that helps.

I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I did a search and didn't see anything under current known issues that matched my problem. All the tutorials I've looked at do not mention anything about setting up the Make command. Qt seems to be a very nice IDE to work in, so I'm hoping I can get this issue worked out. Thank you in advance for your help!

Rob

[nortonglider]

Ah, I think I found the issue. I had no gcc compiler installed in my /usr/bin directory. O.o
Installing XCode 3.1 fixed the problem.

Just curious, I would not have thought that I didn't have the needed components installed, if I ran a full installation of the Qt IDE. Is there any information around that would give me the general overview of what's necessary to set up a programming environment?

Thanks!
Rob