I'm running VMWare on a Debian testing machine. After kernel and VMWare update (kernel 5.8.0-2 and vmware-player-16.0.0) I receive an error that it can't find the gcc to compile the modules. With respect to similar issues found online, it does not even ask the gcc version, (null) is displayed instead.
The full message is "GCC C Compiler (gcc) version (null) was not found. ..." I've tried to use the different gcc versions paths, to change the default version with update-alternatives, but without results.