macOS Can't get anything to compile, please help

[pauldavis]

Ok, so I am completely new to using XCode, but have a little experience with programming, just a high school class worth that i took 3 years ago

Anyway, I decided to learn Cocoa to try to make a good accounting program

Whenever I open any project and try to "build and go" i get the same error, here it is

Building target "Accounting" - (1 error)
Precompiling Accounting_Prefix.pch (1 error)
Couldn't run 'usr/bin/gcc-3.3' because it does not refer to an accessible executable

Build failed for target "Accounting" using build style "Development (1 error)


even when i open a blank foundation project, and do absolutley nothing to it I still get this message

keep in mind that i have forgotten almost everything i knew about programming and I am just starting to use XCode

any help will be greatly appreciated and i thank you in advance

 

[Nutter]

Try downloading and installing the latest version of Xcode:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/

(Assuming you're running Tiger. If not, perhaps you ought.)

 

[Sayer]

You may have mistakenly copied over Xcode from somewhere, or somehow removed the underlying Unixy bits that do the actual compiling work for Xcode.

There is a ton of stuff that must be installed behind the scenes to enable programming on OS X, much more than just Xcode.app.