[Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

[Arlen Cuss]

27/07/2011 4:25 PM, Tom Murphy kirjutas:
> On 7/27/11, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> "Developer Tools" is actually what the HP requires. I think it might
> be under the XCode umbrella. Still, the Macbook Air doesn't come with
> an install for XCode or Developer Tools.
> 
> How can gcc require this stuff, though? Doesn't gcc pre-date all of
> this stuff by a decade and a half?

I believe it's to link in with all the very Mac-specific APIs and so on.
Perhaps only OS X knows how to link a binary just right, or something.