GCC Binary CD Question

[Porter, Doug]

I'm a Systems Analyst & network administrator in a Windows environment and have almost no experience with Linux beyond the basic Linux installation process.  I'm trying to help a few circuit design engineers in my company set up circuit simulation software on Intel 64-bit Redhat Linux ES version 5 , and this software requires a C compiler to work efficiently.  Neither I nor the design engineers have experience with Linux.  My apologies for my ignorance in these matters, but is there a CD for the binary version of a GCC C compiler that I could buy for this hardware & operating system?  Figuring out how to install a C compiler is likely going to take more time than I can reasonably afford, but I'm trying to help out some very frustrated users on a project I have no direct responsibility for and am reluctant to leave them to flounder on their own.

Any advice or assistance you could provide would be both helpful and appreciated.

Doug Porter
Systems Analyst
Cirrus Logic
520.690.8651
doug.porter@cirrus.com