irexec: line 1: gcc: command not found

[Jim P. <jim...@gm...>]

I thought I would use lirc so I could use my remote to turn on and off 
my mythtv computer, my plan was as follows;

I allready have a working lirc setup on my mythtv box I also have this 
box setup to wake from acpi alarm and to wake on lan. I have an IpCop 
firewall that I have ether-wake installed on as well as the wake on lan 
gui. all of this is working and I can wake my mythtv box from the gui or 
the command line of my IpCop firewall box.
I have an Hdhomerun network tuner that doubles as a lirc udp device, so 
I should be able to write a couple scripts to run from my mythtv box 
that will set the ip address that the hdhomerun will send the udp 
packets to, to my mythbox on bootup and then to my firewall on shutdown. 
Then install lirc on the firewall and write scripts to start lircd and 
irexec at boot and one called "mythstart" to send the magic packet to my 
mythbox. copy my lircd.conf for my huapauge remote to my firewall box 
and create a quick irexec.conf file that makes the power button run the 
mythstart script. this all seems simple enough with the biggest hurdle 
being that IpCop being a perimeter firewall it doesn't have any compile 
tools. No problem I'll load the Ipcop devel edition on vmware, build the 
bianaries and copy them to the firewall.
after doing this I can run irw on the firewall and see the keypresses 
from my remote but if I try to start irexec I get this error ;
 "/usr/local/bin/irexec: line 1: gcc: command not found"  why should it 
even need gcc , it was compiled on the vmware? irw seems to work 
compiled like this, why not irexec?
where did i go wrong?