[parallax]

Hey everyone.

How can I get a precompiled version of gcc for use in os x?
Where can I find good documentation on using UNIX and the relationship between UNIX and OS X?

Thanks!

[Scott_H]

Wlcome to the forum.

You may want to check out both the tools that come with Darwin and the Developer Tools for OS X that Apple has on line. Poke around the threads in OS X Developer.

I'm going to move this over to the Mac OS X Developer forum. Click through to find your post.

[sordid]

for the third time ive posted this reply, gcc is cc in the apple developer tools.

get the dev tools, either the hacked copy from the darwin image or the apple dev tools from https://connect.apple.com and go to your /usr/bin directory and type in "cp cc gcc"

its that simple.

egcs (which is osx's native compiler, cc) is gcc.

I'm not happy about downloading 70Mb over a modem just to get cc. If someone could stick the 'cc' and 'make' binaries on the internet somewhere, that'd be great.

Well, if you really wanted I bet someone would mail those two binaries to you, but what would you do with them then?

In order to compile something you would still need an assembler and a linker. And if it would only stop there.

What about the libraries you certainly would which to link against, in order to get an executable that will indeed be executable. And what about the header files for that matter?

Do the 70 megs download. Trust me. You won't get anywhere otherwise.


Sebastian

P.S.: I wouldn't recommend grabbing the darwin tools, since they neither contain the most up-to-date libraries, nor the headers nor any of the graphical tools. Plus, I know quite a few people who screwed up their systems badly in trying to install the darwin tools and not knowing what they were doing.