Installing GCC on a very minimal system, best way to do it?

coffeecoffee · 03-12-2009, 08:08 AM

Hi
I am using a very minimal linux distribution for a System On Chip CPU (i486SX clone). There is hardly anything on this system - no package manager etc. I need to install GCC 3. Is there somewhere I can find a binary package of GCC that doesnt need to be itself compiled, and will just work? Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

lazlow · 03-13-2009, 02:26 AM

You are probably better off doing all your compiling on another system using the cross compiling options. For starters it will be much, much, faster (assuming a modern machine).

Pretty much any binary of GCC would need to be compiled for that particular distro (whichever one you are using).