{"id":130,"date":"2008-07-16T17:21:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:53:43","slug":"getting-gcc-on-a-mac-oh-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Getting gcc on a Mac – oh the pain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone came to visit me today with a MATLAB mex problem and, among other things, I needed to install gcc for them. Now on a Linux machine this would have been trivial. Something like<\/p>\n

yum install gcc<\/p>\n

or<\/p>\n

apt-get install gcc<\/p>\n

would do the trick, depending on which flavour of Linux you are using. One command, a quick download and you’re done. Couldn’t be simpler.<\/p>\n

I am as green as grass when it comes to Mac usage and so I assumed that there would be some Mac equivalent to these commands but it seems that this is not the case (please please <\/strong>correct me if I am wrong). As far as I can tell, one needs to install something called Xcode<\/a> in order to get gcc which is 1 Gigabyte in size. You heard me right – 1GB….for gcc! Of course it isn’t just<\/strong> gcc taking up that 1GB – you get lots of other gubbins too – but I don’t want all of the other gubbins. I just want gcc.<\/p>\n

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But the size isn’t the worst bit. It turns out that you have to go through a registration process in order to get your hands on XCode – giving Apple information such as your email address, home address, what area you work in, what you are going to use XCode for etc etc<\/p>\n

All this to get hold of one of the most fundamental open-source applications there is. There has to be a better way. If anyone can enlighten me as to what that better way might be I would be very grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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