Thanks! I was looking at [1] and wasn't sure if those were binaries.
That's perfect then. Install GCC, compilers, build headers etc via `sudo apt-get install build-essential` when necessary. So this should be the same general approach as on Alpine.
libgcc_s.so.1 is a collection of utility routines used by all sorts of programs. The entry named "gcc" is a directory (that contains only empty directories?). /usr/share/gcc-7/python/libstdcxx/ is from the libstdc++6 package (looks like gdb pretty-printers for C++ standard library types).
https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-7-base
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/gcc-7-base/filelist