Re: Installing the GCC
Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 2026-08-16 at 00:14 +0100, Houcine Arroui via Gcc-help wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I wrote this email to ask you a question about the GCC compiler. > > I wanted to download the latest version of this software from your > mirror > website, but as I was navigating throughout the mirror site, there > were no > instructions on how to set up the compiler; within the folder, there > were > only zip files and text. Explain to use for what programming languages you need a GCC compiler! > > Can you please explain how I can install the GCC compiler? Thank you. GCC is a collection of compilers, not a single one. The installation procedure depends on what operating system you are using. Most Linux distributions are packaging already GCC so you just need to install the binary packages providing it. Maybe the simplest way might be to install a Linux operating system (e.g. debian.org or ubuntu.com). It can co-exist with whatever proprietary operating system (e.g. bought from Microsoft) you have. If you use Windows, consider installing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin PS. I did contribute to GCC https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0779 and now am developing an open source inference engine for expert systems -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[email protected]> 8 rue de la Faïencerie http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ 92340 Bourg-la-Reine https://github.com/bstarynk France https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-5250