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My problem is simple, I would like to get the OSX/BSD version of the GCC and G++ compilers from the GNU.org website. However after some research (as described below) I learned that Apple uses LLVM and gcc is a symbolic link to llvm-cc while g++ is a symbolic link to llvm-g++.

I also learned Apple were stupid enough to remove these compilers with no reasonable explanation (Literally, nobody can give a valid reason for this, there is no such thing). The other thing I learned is Apple uses the LLVM (as previously explained).

• I have searched the web to try and learn how to do this, and nothing is being useful. Only people talking about Xcode, or other long-winded installing of Apps and running commands and installing other resources.

• XCODE is NOT the solution i'm looking for as Xcode does not automatically come with the compiler, but requires additional installations and things.

My question

• I want to learn, I want to understand;
• I do NOT want the 'easy way' or the 'use the application way';
• I want to do it the old-school way, the download source from GNU,configure/make/make install - funnily enough, Apple has removed these too - What are they thinking?

My current attempt

I downloaded the LLVM source from the following location:Source: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.3Download: Clang Binaries for Mac OS X (79M) (.sig)

I then extracted the contents of this directory, in my Downloads directory:$ tar -xzpf clang+llvm-3.3-x86_64-apple-darwin12.tar.gz

I have tried to read the Getting Started Guide, which says 'Read the documentation' I cannot find this documentation, not in the downloaded libraries or online.

1 Answer

Apple has changed the way that this works now (you don't have to install all 1.7 GB of XCode).

If you are willing to register for a free developer account, you can get just the command-line tools installer from http://developer.apple.com/downloads

Update: in the latest OS it has changed again. If you type gcc at the command line it will prompt you whether you would like to install.

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What's new in 8-2019-q3-update

In this release

1. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-win32-sha1.exe

   Windows 32-bit Installer (Signed for Windows XP and Vista)

   MD5: efe728cfbc6a24c6ecf261c2997d6024

2. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-win32-sha2.exe

   Windows 32-bit Installer (Signed for Windows 7 and later)

   MD5: d44f44b258b203bdd6808752907754be

3. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-win32.exe

   Windows 32-bit Installer (Unsigned)

   MD5: a67963d87a26f14283ac4485929c465b

4. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-win32.zip

   Windows 32-bit ZIP package

   MD5: 5fa382a547abe0b0d5c0a6e9eaa75c7b

5. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-linux.tar.bz2

   Linux 64-bit Tarball

   MD5: 6341f11972dac8de185646d0fbd73bfc

6. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-mac.tar.bz2

   Mac OS X 64-bit Tarball

   MD5: 405cfbe54cee25a1b925ad0657f73924

7. gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-src.tar.bz2

   Source Tarball

   MD5: 98b04aecfce4fd3b2377ea1029edc078

Features:

• All GCC 8 features, plus latest mainline features

Known Changes and Issues:

• Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation:

• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535

• Multilib is now enabled with --with-multilib-list=rmprofile when building the toolchain from source.

• Windows installer now accepts the following options when running in silent mode:

• /P Adds the installation bin directory to the system PATH
• /R Adds an InstallFolder registry entry for the install.

• Release Note for GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain 8-2019-q3-update

  Release notes for
  *************************************************
  GNU Tools for Arm Embedded Processors 8
  - Q3 2019
  *************************************************
  This release includes the following items:
  * Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Windows host
  * Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Linux host
  * Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Mac OS X host
  * Source code package (together with build scripts and instructions to setup
  build environment), composed of:
  * gcc : gcc-8-branch revision 273027
  svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-8-branch
  * binutils : 2.32 with mainline backports
  git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git commit 2ab3145b4fae077dccd8a93078eeaec038f7126d
  * newlib and newlib-nano :
  git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git commit fff17ad73f6ae6b75ef293e17a837f23f6134753
  * gdb : 8.3 without target sim support
  git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git commit 66263c8cdba32ef18ae0dfabde0867b9b850c441
  Note that some or all of the following prerequisites are downloaded when
  building from source:
  * EnvVarUpdate NSIS script :
  http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/images/a/ad/EnvVarUpdate.7z
  * expat 2.1.1 :
  http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.1/expat-2.1.1.tar.bz2
  * gmp 6.1.0 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2
  * isl 0.15 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/isl-0.15.tar.bz2
  * libelf 0.8.13 : https://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz
  * libiconv 1.14 :
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
  * mpc 1.0.3 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz
  * mpfr 3.1.4 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpfr-3.1.4.tar.bz2
  * python 2.7.13 : https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/python-2.7.13.msi
  * zlib 1.2.8
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz/download
  Minimum host requirements:
  * Windows 7 32/64 bits or later (with installer and alternative zip package)
  * Linux
  - Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits or later (tarball)
  - Ubuntu supported releases 32 bits and 64 bits (PPA)
  https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life
  - RHEL 7 64 bits (tarball)
  * Mac OS X 10.13 and newer 64 bits (tarball)
  Supported target OS:
  * Bare metal EABI only
  Features:
  * All GCC 8 features, plus latest mainline features
  Tests:
  * Targets
  + variety of Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/A9 boards
  + Qemu
  + Arm Fast Models
  * Hosts
  + Windows 7 32/64 bits (with installer and alternative zip package)
  + Linux 64 bits
  - Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 (tarball and PPA)
  - RHEL 7 (tarball)
  + Mac OS X 10.13 (tarball)
  Important changes in 8-2019Q3 update release:
  * https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23699
  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1813553
  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1814397
  * Fix debug info loss for CMSE entry functions
  (https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-07/msg00018.html)
  Known Changes and Issues:
  * Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation:
  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535
  * Multilib is now enabled with --with-multilib-list=rmprofile when building the
  toolchain from source
  * Windows installer now accepts the following options when running in silent mode:
  - /P Adds the installation bin directory to the system PATH
  - /R Adds an InstallFolder registry entry for the install.
  

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