Re: How to install GCC

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IMHO no "man of gun" uses Mac but GNU/Linux

Am I being cynical???

Kemal

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 13/02/18 12:22 PM, Mehrdad Tavassoli S225061 wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It is almost impossible to install GCC and it's ridiculously complicated
>>
>
>
> Firstly, yes, you are correct. Also quite wrong. I don't blame you for
> your frustration but I do blame you for your tone.
>
> So trying to install GCC from the source code is partly black magic and
> mostly a lot of experience dealing with it on various platforms. Most of
> the people that work with GCC on a daily basis don't really have the
> vast amount of time it takes to hand hold a new person that has never
> ever tried before. So if you wander in throwing stones and stomping your
> feet then don't expect a headlong rush from people to help you.
>
> Having said all that, people have faced this problem before and the
> popular opinion from other sources is don't do that.  I see others have
> run into your os of choice and they are stuck with clang. It is not at
> all easy to get gcc onto that machine.  Even if you do there is opinion
> that gcc can not be used to build native macOS applications.
>
> Dennis Clarke
>
> ps: been bootstrapping gcc for maybe twenty years and it still
>       makes life hell on some platforms.
>
>


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