Yes, John is right. Xcode is one-stop shopping for gcc, fortran (!?!?!), objective-c, all the command-line tools, etc & so on, without having to use macports or fink or whatever.  And it's a trivial installation.

(Note to non-Mac users; Lion client version comes with no compilation stuff cuz... well, it's a "client" :)

/fas

On 25 August 2012 15:44, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Filippo A. Salustri writes:
>> I haven't yet installed Xcode on some of my Lion machines, so I haven't
>> got 'make' everywhere.
>
> Why do you need Xcode to get make?

Having a Mac myself, I'm assuming the answer is that it's just the
easiest way. Pop in the DVD and install the gcc tools from the extras
folder. Is there a better way?

John

>
>> I've been toying with trying to do the installation on my Mac server,
>> which has Xcode, then copying the compiled stuff into the identical
>> directory structure on my non-Xcode machines.  Any thoughts on whether
>> that would work?
>
> Yes that works just fine.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
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