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FAQ: document additional tools required for C/C++ development #2374

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are a telltale sign that you are lacking compilers.

Depending on the specific tools that you use for building C/C++ code, you may need some additional tools, for example:
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Depending on the specific tools that you use for building C/C++ code, you may need some additional tools, for example:
The actual orchestration of the various compilation and linking steps is almost always done
by some build orchestrator (e.g. `CMake`, `meson`, ...), which will generally require a
build system (e.g. `ninja`, `make`), or possibly other supporting tools like `pkg-config`.
We package several tools that can be used for building C/C++ code; a selection that covers
the most common scenarios would be:


```
cxx-compiler cmake pkg-config make ninja meson
```

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