error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory: when 'make' for vix-perl

Im  trying follow the steps to install vix-perl. At make i get the following error...

cc -c  -I. -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -Wall -pipe   -DVERSION=\"0.01\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.01\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE"  -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL VixBinding.c

cc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory

make: *** http://VixBinding.o Error 1

I m trying to do this on an SLES10 64-bit machine. Could somebosy help me out with this.

Thanks.

M