OS X & gcc


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Today some girl came in and asked me to help her out with her Powerbook. Well after I finished that up she asked me if I knew of any compilers that would work on OS X. I told her that since it's based off on FreeBSD and all that fun stuff you have gcc already in your terminal. Well after trying to demonstrate it to her I got an error that the gcc command doesn't exist. So then I remembered that she probably doesn't have the Developer tools installed (taking a guess here). I don't know if the Mac store gave her the disc or not. Even then I'm not sure she knows where the disc is. So I was wondering if Apple put up all the stuff online where I can attempt to install it on her Mac. Again I'm not a Mac user so I don't know how this works. Just trying to help her out.

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You can download them at http://connect.apple.com/ with a free ADC subscription.

Thanks, I think that one of Mac friends has a develop CD. Would her CD work on the Mac I'm trying to setup. I mean it isn't going to ask me for a CD Key will it? Though I guess the only thing I would have to download would be "December 2002 Mac OS X Developer Tools"

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Why would they have a CD Key on free software? :rofl:

Just make sure you get the latest update. If they're running Panther, it'd be silly not to update to XCode :D

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Why would they have a CD Key on free software? :rofl:

Sorry I've been up for 20 hours.

Anyway I'm going to download the software now (easier). This is my plan so let me know if I should add anything for her or not.

If she is running Panther I'll install:

  • Xcode Tools v1.1
  • December 2002 Mac OS X Developer Tools

If she is not running Panther I'll install:

  • December 2002 Mac OS X Developer Tools

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Nope, if they're running Panther just install Xcode Tools v1.1

The Xcode Tools 1.1 release is a complete installation of the Xcode development tools
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The XCode Package lets you install GCC 3.3 and stuff like that, it is default even, so just a full install will work.

Use the Dec. Dev tools if they dont have panther because I dont think Xcode works on Jag... ;)

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The XCode Package lets you install GCC 3.3 and stuff like that, it is default even, so just a full install will work.

Use the Dec. Dev tools if they dont have panther because I dont think Xcode works on Jag... ;)

Since she didn't have gcc I'm going to assume that it isn't Panther, but incase she did all I have to install is XCode not the Dec. Dev. tools right?

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Ok, here is what you can install...

Looks like Xcode really does work on 10.2 also, so you could just use the same CD for both.

That's odd that it works with 10.2 since on the site it says "Requires Mac OS X v 10.3 or later." I guess I'll try to install XCode first then if that doesn't work I'll try the Dev. Tools.

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There are specific packages for 10.2 on the Xcode CD, and I think I recall Xchat betas working on 10.2....

Well don't have access to the CD right now that's why I'm thinking of downloading it.

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