cwcompile command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cwcompile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cwcompile: command not found

Solutions to cwcompile: command not found

How To Fix cwcompile: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cwcompile is provided by gauche-c-wrapper package.

gauche-c-wrapper is:

c-wrapper is a foreign function interface for C and Objective-C libraries. It can parse C header files, so you don’t need to define functions, global variables and constants to use libraries.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install gauche-c-wrapper

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install gauche-c-wrapper.

sudo apt -y install gauche-c-wrapper

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install gauche-c-wrapper

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cwcompile command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.