From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20535 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2002 10:46:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20523 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2002 10:46:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aleve.media.mit.edu) (18.85.2.171) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 18 Dec 2002 10:46:18 -0000 Received: from ml.media.mit.edu (ml.media.mit.edu [18.85.13.107]) by aleve.media.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/+ALEVE) with ESMTP id FAA04149; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:46:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from deva@localhost) by ml.media.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/MEDIA) id FAA20731; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:46:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:33:00 -0000 From: Deva Seetharam To: Rupert Wood cc: "'Ashwin Varma'" , gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: RE: please help In-Reply-To: <616BE6A276E3714788D2AC35C40CD18D5617FE@whale.softwire.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00192.txt.bz2 gcc.gnu.org has tons of docs on installation, configuration and usage. Deva Seetharam On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Rupert Wood wrote: > Ashwin Varma wrote: > > > i am new to gcc. i wanted to do some development using > > C on gcc. could you help me by telling me which files > > to download and so on. > > If you don't already have a C compiler on your system, you should > download a binary distribution of GCC from > > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html > > or, if you're using linux or similar, install the one provided with your > OS. > > If you do have a C compiler and want to build and use the latest GCC, > you go to your local GNU mirror site (see > http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html) and the gnu/gcc/gcc-3.2.1 directory: > from there, you can download gcc-3.2.1.tar.gz which contains the > complete set of languages and testsuite or you can download > gcc-core-3.2.1.tar.gz which contains C and then add other languages as > you like from the other files. This is described > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/download.html. > > You'll also need to install your OS's assembler, linker and development > C libraries: the GNU binutils package will contain versions of the first > two. > > Good luck, > Rup. > >