GnuCompilerCollection

The GnuCompilerCollection (gcc) is the crown jewel of the GnuTools. http://gcc.gnu.org/

• Gcc provides a collection of front ends for various languages (CeeLanguage, CeePlusPlus, ObjectiveCee, ObjectiveCeePlusPlus, JavaLanguage, FortranLanguage, PascalLanguage etc.)
• Gcc provides back ends for various OperatingSystems and architectures (UnixOs, WindowsOperatingSystems, MacOsx, PalmOs, etc.; Intel, PowerPc, MicroControllers, etc.).
• Gcc is portable to a variety of host environments (GnuLinux, MacOsx, CygWin, etc.).
• For the full list of combinations, see http://gcc.gnu.org/ .
• There is a wiki at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki .
• OpenMultiProcessing(OpenMP) is available using GOMP (see http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/ )

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Any reasons for time starved inhouse developers to be concerned about GnuCompilerCollection? What useful things can be developed for deployment under WindowsOperatingSystems?

• There exist Windows tools distributed under GnuGeneralPublicLicense. An example being CygWin derived products.
  • See http://mingw.org/history.shtml BrokenLink 20090426
• MinimalistGnuForWindows (MinGW, http://www.mingw.org) is a GCC variant which is targeted at Windows - you can use it to build native Windows apps.
  • TwilightDragon who provide a more recent GNU compiler version for MinGW.
• CppIde is an IDE that uses g++ as its default compiler.
• CodeBlocks is another IDE which will integrate with mingw or other compilers.
• EclipseIde is another IDE which will integrate with mingw or other compilers.

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It provides facilities for any ol' developer to write their own front-end to it, thus providing whatever-language with the full power of the back-end. In practice, unless you're already intimately familiar with the system... this will take a while. Documentation is a bit of a problem, up-to-date documentation more so, and the code isn't often written for clarity.

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Pages for particular languages

• C GnuCee
• C++ GnuCpp
• See ColorGcc for coloured error messages for C and C++.
• Pascal see GnuPascal

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There is also the DataDisplayDebugger (ddd).

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I have no doubt that this subject has been beaten to death in the past, but I'd like to dredge it up Yet One More Time: Why can't the FSF people join the blessed 21st Century and create a GCC that runs native under MS-Windows?!? Ignoring this source of development potential is like pretending the sun does not rise in the east. All of the workarounds, fake Linux environments, pseudo-tools, and other kaka is just that -- craprodica. Can't FSF create a tool set (well, a C/C++ compiler, at least) that runs in the single most prolific desktop environment on Planet Earth?

They did. It's called mingw.

See the references above. I think this is a ParkingTicket comment not looking for a reply. -- JohnFletcher

Have you looked at the way TwilightDragon have packaged the tools? When it is combined with CodeBlocks it provides a project environment for program development.

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It is worth adding that there is an alternative set of tools in Clang (CeeLanguageFamilyFrontEnd) and LLVM (LowLevelVirtualMachine) to be looked at as well.

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CategoryLanguageImplementation