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In my experience, Apple's gcc is still the recommended version. Hopefully solid non-apple gcc packages come out. I don't like the idea of paying $5 to apple to
by tensor 16y ago
In my experience, Apple's gcc is still the recommended version.
Hopefully solid non-apple gcc packages come out. I don't like the idea of paying $5 to apple to develop generic unix applications on OS X.
- randrews 16y agoOh, I'm sure they will. The only reason Apple's gcc is still the recommended version is that nobody cared enough before to make an alternative one. Now that saving five bucks is involved, people will move mountains to make it happen. :)
- adsr 16y agoApples GCC is available for free, or llvm/clang. The $5 is for the IDE. And this is for the preview only so far, as far as I can tell.
- _delirium 16y agoApple's gcc isn't available from Apple in an installable form outside of XCode, though. Their version on opensource.apple.com is just the source, so somebody else would have to host a binary. Definitely doable, but will be a change from the current practice, which is to expect users to have an Apple-supplied compiler binary.
- rbanffy 16y agoThey are not available for free because they come bundled with US$ 5 worth of IDE and cannot be separated.
- adsr 16y agoYes they are, see my other post. _delirium has a point though, but I'm sure it will be solved somehow. Hopefully from here. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/