On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, 19:55 Alex K via Gcc-help, <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to try the C compiler -- just the compiler, no libraries or IDEs. > GCC doesn't come with an IDE, nor a C library. The latest TAR expands for hours Are you doing it on a pocket calculator? and has a lot of stuff I do not need. > I want a tool which I can use on command line, provide some options and > get the EXE file. > Is this available? > That's what GCC is. We don't provide precompiled binaries for GCC though, you'll need to download that from somewhere else. I'm guessing from "EXE" you are in Windows, so consider the MinGW or mingw-w64 projects. > >