gcc 3.4.0 - The GNU Compiler Collection

[Gordon Darling]

gcc 3.4.0 - The GNU Compiler Collection

About:
The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective-C,
Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. It is a
full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides
many levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other
tools (such as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many
different optimizations to the resulting object code.

Changes:
This release contains a large number of new features as well as over 900
fixes for defects in previous releases.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcc/

Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/gcc/3088/url_tgz/mirrors.html
Tar/BZ2: http://freshmeat.net/redir/gcc/3088/url_bz2/mirrors.html

Regards
Gordon

 

[Trey Hunner]

Gordon Darling said the following on 4/21/2004 12:10 PM:

gcc 3.4.0 - The GNU Compiler Collection

About:
The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective-C,
Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. It is a
full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides
many levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other
tools (such as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many
different optimizations to the resulting object code.

Changes:
This release contains a large number of new features as well as over 900
fixes for defects in previous releases.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcc/

Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/gcc/3088/url_tgz/mirrors.html
Tar/BZ2: http://freshmeat.net/redir/gcc/3088/url_bz2/mirrors.html

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I believe gcc has been included as a standard in almost every Linux
distribution for many years now. You may already have it on your system
or on your CD and not know it.

I believe GCC has also been ported to Windows by the GNUWin32 Project so
all of the Unix-user-wannabes can use it also.
GNUWin32 website: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

 

[Robin T Cox]

I believe gcc has been included as a standard in almost every Linux
distribution for many years now. You may already have it on your system
or on your CD and not know it.

However, there are some popular 'tiny' distros that do *not* include it:
e.g. Damn Small Linux, Feather Linux. So if you need to compile drivers for
your WinModem you may need gcc.

 

[JanC]

I believe GCC has also been ported to Windows by the GNUWin32 Project so
all of the Unix-user-wannabes can use it also.
GNUWin32 website: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

There are at least 3 ports of GCC that work on Windows:

CygWin
<http://cygwin.com/>
(partial) linux API compatible programming

MinGW
<http://mingw.org/>
for native Windows Win32 API programming

DJGPP
<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/>
for DOS 32-bits programming

 

[Gordon Darling]

...

I believe gcc has been included as a standard in almost every Linux
distribution for many years now. You may already have it on your system
or on your CD and not know it.

Indeed. In many respects it's at the heart of the Linux project and it's
a very powerful compiler. I'm still using 3.3.1 and I'm going to wait a
little while before I upgrade as the the last major upgrade of gcc borked
two of my projects.

I believe GCC has also been ported to Windows by the GNUWin32 Project so
all of the Unix-user-wannabes can use it also. GNUWin32 website:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the additional info.

Regards
Gordon

 

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

I am a UNIX(tm) expatriate and that's why I use Cygwin. I used to play
with Linux 0.97 in a Sharp subnotebook with an (incredibly expensive)
solid-state 20 Mb flash-card when using Linux was hip. And I had gcc
back then. I would use BSD boxen for real work at the time, and I still
prefer it that way.

There are at least 3 ports of GCC that work on Windows:

CygWin
<http://cygwin.com/>
(partial) linux API compatible programming

No. Cygwin strives for POSIX.1 compliance. That's as different from
Linux as a Volvo to a Yugo. Linux is a Minix clone; Minis ain't Unix.

MinGW

DJGPP

You forgot to mention RXSNT.