Hello , Why don't you take a look at http://freeware.sgi.com where pre-built binaries of gcc are available. You will have to search for gcc. As far as I know, there was once gcc2.8.1 available. Know I think even gcc2.95.2 is also made available as I can see from http://toolbox.sgi.com/TasteOfDT/public/freeware/Dist/fw_gcc-2.95.2.tardist Why not try installing this and use it as a boostrap compiler for compiling the latest gcc. Building gcc for mips targets have always for me have been quite an adventure. Koundinya -> Dear gcc people, -> -> I wrote recently about my failure to compile gcc for mips-sgi-irix5.2 -> -> I got the folling answer from Alexandre Oliva: -> -> IIRC, Jim Wilson once told me some old version of SGI's C compiler -> would mis-compile stage1 in a way that would cause some optimizations -> to be missed, and then stage2 would end up different from stage3, that -> would catch up on the optimizations. Once you get a compare failure, -> try `make bootstrap2' again, so that stage3 is used as stage2, a new -> stage3 is built and compared with it. -> -> I tried that but it failed. -> The problem is may be that I had no GNU tools installed. -> -> -> I installed successfully bison-1.28 and texinfo-4.0 -> but gperf-2.7 failed because c++ is unavailable (this is what I try to -> build !) -> -> May be more important is that trying to install binutils-2.10, I was warned -> that mips-sgi-irix5.2 is not supported by ld and gprof. -> -> Is there a way to make these things working ? -> -> Sincerely yours, -> -> -> Dr. Jean-Marc Nuzillard -> Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie -> UMR 6013 -> Moulin de la Housse -> CPCBAI, Bâtiment 18 -> BP 1039 -> 51097 REIMS Cedex -> France -> -> Tel : 33 3 26 91 35 48 -> Fax :33 3 26 91 35 96 ->