How can I install "minimodem" on Damn Small Linux?

I download minimodem_0.19.orig.tar.gz...
from http://www.whence.com/minimodem/
.....
[/home/dsl]# tar zxf minimodem_0.19.orig.tar.gz
[/home/dsl]# cd minimodem-0.19
[/home/dsl/minimodem-0.19]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/home/dsl/minimodem-0.19':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
[/home/dsl/minimodem-0.19]#
...
What do I need to do?