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# 1  
Old 07-11-2015
Alternatives to GNU Make for users of newer OS X

As you may already know, Apple has integrated all the GNU developer tools into their own graphical development environment so you can no longer use them from the command line. This means that open source software that is distributed as source is inaccessible to users of newer versions of Mac OS X, because we can't use gcc or make to compile it. Is there an alternative method of doing this?
# 2  
Old 07-11-2015
That is news to me. I just tried the following on Mac OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.4:
Code:
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
	printf("Hello world.\n");
	return(0);
}
$ make hello
cc     hello.c   -o hello
$ ./hello
Hello world.
$

You do have to perform a free download of the Xcode development tools to get them, but once you do that gcc, make, and the other common development tools are readily available even if you don't use the Xcode tools to manage your source code.
# 3  
Old 07-21-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
That is news to me. I just tried the following on Mac OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.4:
Code:
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
    printf("Hello world.\n");
    return(0);
}
$ make hello
cc     hello.c   -o hello
$ ./hello
Hello world.
$

You do have to perform a free download of the Xcode development tools to get them, but once you do that gcc, make, and the other common development tools are readily available even if you don't use the Xcode tools to manage your source code.
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. I already have gcc, make, etc. installed on my machine, and have added their directory to $PATH in my startup script. However, when I run gcc, it tells me certain libraries are missing. I can't link C libraries except through XCode. Will downloading the developer tools change this?
# 4  
Old 07-21-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ultrix
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. I already have gcc, make, etc. installed on my machine, and have added their directory to $PATH in my startup script. However, when I run gcc, it tells me certain libraries are missing. I can't link C libraries except through XCode. Will downloading the developer tools change this?
You originally said:
Quote:
This means that open source software that is distributed as source is inaccessible to users of newer versions of Mac OS X, because we can't use gcc or make to compile it.
Now you're saying gcc and make work just fine, but don't magically download open source libraries needed by the open source software you downloaded from a 3rd party site. When you're downloading open source software, you also have to download, build, and install the open source libraries upon which it depends.
# 5  
Old 07-22-2015
Okay. I copied all the C header files into /usr/include a while back while I was trying to get it to work. Should I delete them before I download the developer tools?
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