Installing JACK - no C compiler ...?

I am just getting underway here, and JACK is giving me trouble, won’t get past this:

checking for gawk… no
checking for mawk… no
checking for nawk… no
checking for awk… awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: in /Users/ninamaxwell': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH Seeconfig.log’ for more details.
logout

I am not sure what a C compiler is, nor where the $PATH is. IS there something I need to put in the /users/nina… folder?? I have very little programming experience so these things may be obvious. I am running this on Mac OS X 10.6.8 .
Not sure if this is the proper place to ask about help with JACK. Let me know if there’s any directions I can be pointed in.
Any and all help is much appreciated. Would love to get inside.

~d’Spacio

Full detail here:

Last login: Wed Aug 8 18:37:40 on ttys000
/Users/ninamaxwell/Downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3/configure ; exit;
nina-maxwells-computer:~ ninamaxwell$ /Users/ninamaxwell/Downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3/configure ; exit;
checking existing, conflicting JACK installs… checking build system type… i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /Users/ninamaxwell/Downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3/config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk… no
checking for mawk… no
checking for nawk… no
checking for awk… awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: in /Users/ninamaxwell': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH Seeconfig.log’ for more details.
logout

or potentially here…

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.65. Invocation command line was

$ /Users/ninamaxwell/Downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3/configure

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Platform.

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/usr/bin/uname -p = i386
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Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
Kernel configured for up to 2 processors.
2 processors are physically available.
2 processors are logically available.
Processor type: i486 (Intel 80486)
Processors active: 0 1
Primary memory available: 4.00 gigabytes
Default processor set: 65 tasks, 322 threads, 2 processors
Load average: 0.99, Mach factor: 1.12
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/X11/bin

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Core tests.

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configure:2612: checking existing, conflicting JACK installs
configure:2680: checking build system type
configure:2694: result: i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
configure:2765: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2833: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2844: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2894: result: yes
configure:3035: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:3074: result: /Users/ninamaxwell/Downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3/config/install-sh -c -d
configure:3087: checking for gawk
configure:3117: result: no
configure:3087: checking for mawk
configure:3117: result: no
configure:3087: checking for nawk
configure:3117: result: no
configure:3087: checking for awk
configure:3103: found /usr/bin/awk
configure:3114: result: awk
configure:3125: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:3151: result: no
configure:3343: checking for gcc
configure:3373: result: no
configure:3436: checking for cc
configure:3483: result: no
configure:3539: checking for cl.exe
configure:3569: result: no
configure:3593: error: in /Users/ninamaxwell': configure:3596: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH Seeconfig.log’ for more details.

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#define PACKAGE “jack-audio-connection-kit”
#define VERSION “0.121.3”

configure: exit 1

If you are on Mac, go to jackosx.com and download form there and install with a standard .pkg

What you are trying to do is compile the source code to an executable program, which if you want to do, you would start by installing XCode on OS X which would bring in the needed compiler, etc. But honestly for 95%+ of people, this isn’t really what you want to do to just run Jack.

     Seablade

Thanks a bunch! That did the trick. Surprised JACKs site couldnt have mentioned this somewhere, I felt I scrubbed it, ah well. Thanks again for the help.

@MildewSound: http://jackaudio.org/download has links to (the same) OS X binaries. In addition, when you downloaded Ardour from this site, you would have been shown a page that mentioned that you needed JACK and told you to get it from jackosx.com

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