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Re: need help with installation
- From: "Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci" <fwyzard-gcc at libero dot it>
- To: "Anderson, James H [IT]" <james dot h dot anderson at citigroup dot com>, <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:17:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: need help with installation
At 08:09 27/08/2003 -0400, Anderson, James H [IT] wrote:
I don't seem to have a working C compiler so am unable to do the initial
config. I seem to recall that at one time there was a bootstrap option
that made it possible to build gcc w/o having a compiler on one's system,
but I haven't managed to find it for gcc 3.3.1 (I considered pulling down
a binary version for Solaris but I don't have admin privileges and need to
install in a user directory).
Thanks in advance for any help!
jim
No, you can't build GCC from sources if you don't have a working C compiler
installed.
But you can find prebuilt binaries for most OSes - see
<http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html>. If you're using Linux, all the
distributions I'm aware of ship a working GCC with them, usually from the
3.2 release, so you should find it on you CDs or downloadable from the
distributor's site.
Happy compileg,
.fwyzard.