MacOS – GCC not found, but Xcode is installed

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I have Xcode installed, but when I type gcc in terminal I get "command not found". Maybe I messed up the $PATH variable? What is suposed to be the default value?

EDIT:

(...):/ imac2$ echo $PATH

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/SenchaSDKTools-2.0.0-Beta/jsbuilder:/Applications/SenchaSDKTools-2.0.0-Beta/bin:/Applications/SenchaSDKTools-2.0.0-Beta:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

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You need to install the Xcode command-line developer tools. Open Xcode and go to Xcode → Preferences → Downloads, select the Components tab, and click the button next to “Command Line Tools”.

See Is the installation of Xcode from App Store enough for having the developer tools?.

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$PATH should contain these folders: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin.

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