testing with Slackware and Gentoo

Hello all,

I have noticed that Gentoo and Slackware have been stripped way down–possibly more than they should have been.

So, here is my question. I don't know much about these systems, but I want a system I can have up fairly quickly to test a project, make sure it compiles on both systems, etc.

What packages will I need to make this work?

I installed gcc, g++, binutils and make with slackpkg, but a simple hello world in c didn't compile, with undefined references to 'printf'.