On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 00:56 Tom Kacvinsky via Gcc-help, <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 7:48 PM Bill Cunningham via Gcc-help < > gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Greetings I was wondering if there was a way I could compile a simple C > > only compiler, as a learning experience, and just "extract" a simple C99 > > compiler. To explain better, would there be a log or pathway that gcc > > would create if I properly set the switches ec cetra to compile a C99 > > compiler for the x86_64-pc-linux-gnu target and the log would show me > > all the files used and I could "move" those files to a directory and > > have a simple, smaller, gcc C compiler. > No, GCC does not support doing this. You can't separate the parts needed for C from the other languages without a lot of manual effort and refactoring. It's intended to be a high quality, optimising compiler, not a teaching aid. > > > This is for my own use to learn gcc and not to be made public. > > > Use configure with --enable-languages=c > > This means only the C compiler is built. No C++, no Fortran, Objective C, > etc... > > Of course you need a working C compiler to compile GCC. No, you need a working C++ compiler. GCC has been implemented in C++ for some years now.
