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Re: installation
- To: "John Kyle" <jakyl at c4 dot com>
- Subject: Re: installation
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Nov 2000 19:58:02 -0200
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20001115010148.21241.qmail@purina.chek.com>
On Nov 14, 2000, "John Kyle" <jakyl@c4.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm a student in high school, and I take a computer science
> course that uses c++. I heard gcc was a good compiler, but i can't
> figure out how to 'build' the damned thing. i assume from what i
> read that i need a fortran compiler, and i can't seem to find one in
> the subdirectories i unzipped the gcc stuff, so i assume i have to
> download one? what do i do then?
To build GCC, you only need a C compiler. There are complete
installation instructions in the distribution, as well as at
gcc.gnu.org. If you find there's something missing in the docs,
please let us know how we could improve them.
> also, do i have to be running unix/linux for this to work?
Nope. GCC works on a few platforms that are not Unix or similar.
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