How to build C Preprocessor only?

Alexey Salmin alexey.salmin@gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 09:40:00 GMT 2010


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> 조우영 <newhero@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I need C Preprocessor only.
>> It takes too much time to build the whole gcc package.
>> Is there a way to build only c preprocessor in gcc?
>
> No.  Sorry.  In gcc, the preprocessor is really just part of the
> compiler, it is not a separate program.  The program 'cpp' is just a
> different way of invoking the compiler.
>
> Ian
>

May be "--enable-languages=c" will slightly speed up the build
process? Not what you're asking for but might help a bit.

Alexey



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