What needs to be fixed?

The Getting Started guide fails to mention needing to install the build-essential package for Linux. Following the guide and then trying to compile a file using "rustc foobar.rs" produces an error if the package is not installed. This would be acceptable if the error message given by rustc was more helpful. The error message looks cryptic to a beginner and doesn't provide any information on what is causing the problem or how to resolve it. See https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i4jlbi/linking_with_cc_failed_exit_code_1/ for an example. I'm not sure if this issue should be filled under the website or rustc. A similar issue is at #1012 but this is a more general problem and not restricted to WSL.

Page(s) Affected

https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started