[Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 27/07/2011, at 4:24 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> 
>> If this is the case, couldn't the HP use gcc instead? I'd personally
>> advocate gcc as standard, not as a workaround, because
>> a) gcc is FOSS.
>> b) XCode is 4GB and its functionality is basically orthogonal to the
>> needs of Haskell developers.
> 
> Yes, but AFAIK to get gcc for OSX you get it from XCode :/

A quick web search for "Mac OS X gcc binary" turned up
http://hpc.sourceforge.net/index.php
with binary releases of GCC 4.6 for Lion and Snow Leopard.

This requires "Developer Tools", but that isn't XCode, and it's
on the OS X DVD.