Where can I find a C complier

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:

>Help me out- If FEDORA is REDHAT doesn't gcc come with FC1, FC2 and FC3?
>Because isn't that what you use to compile your kernel?
>Or are you tricking us that you may need a special version eg gcc2.96 ??
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First: Fedora isnt redhat..
Second: Fedora comes with gcc , but it's only installed in case you tell 
the installer to install it (it's under the development tools) or any 
package that depends on it.

>Which brings me to my next question - How would you compile your various
>applications with various C compilers and libraries i.e. config's? 
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Depends.. if you want to use the latest gcc , usually you simply do vi 
README ; vi INSTALL ; ./configure ; ./make ; ./make install
BUT , please read both the README and INSTALL files , because they 
usually contain information that is usefull to compile the program.

>I guess I need to know the CONFIGUERATIONs "how to?" and "what links"
>and/or "Lib"raries are necessary also with their links. Or how do you
>mamage the LINKs - this is getting into ADVANCE LINKing and COMPILEing
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I didnt get this part.. If you mean the linking part that occurs when 
you compile a program , you dont control it a lot... To find the 
necessary libs , you have to pay attention to the output of 
./configure.. It looks for the necessary libs and reports if it finds 
them or not. If a important lib wasnt found , the compile part will 
simply fail. If a acessory lib wasnt found , then the program can  still 
be compiled , but will be missing some functionality.
Usually when I compile a program from source (which is a bit rare , 
considering all the repositories available) , is exactly what I told you 
before (vi README ; etc...) . But I usually do ./configure |tee 
output.log , so I can see what's going on and save the output to 
"output.log" . Then I look at the output.log file and look for all the 
tests that failed (to find if it's looking for a lib on the wrong place 
, if the program needs a lib I dont have , etc). Then , I correct all 
the problems (usually downloading the -devel package for that missing 
lib fixes everything). Then I keep doing the configure step untill 
everything works (or untill I get all the parts I want working). Then I 
proceed to compiling normally..

Hope this helps..

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Pedro Macedo