I loaded the gcc extension and it's listed dependencies kind of expecting to be able to compile afterwards, but this was not the case. I ran into this issue and much general head scratching ensued until I came across this post. Now I understand that just downloading the compiletc meta-extension is probably the best way to go with this if you're going to be doing a lot of compiling, but I'm curious as to why the binutils wouldn't be listed as a dep to the gcc extension? It seems that it would be appropriate to do so.