A list of prerequisites for building is given in our
Installation Instructions, further platform
specific issues are mentioned in our
FAQ.
| OS | Sample configurations | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System (Vendor) | OS, Environment | Architecture | Compiler | |
| AIX | 3.25 | RS6000? | GCC-2.6.x, cc | |
| 4.1.x | RS6000? | GCC-2.6.x | ||
| BeOS | Release 5 | i86 | GCC 2.9 | |
| Compaq Tru64 | 5.0 | AXP (Alpha) | ||
| Digital Unix | 4.0 | AXP (Alpha) | GCC-2.7.2 | |
| 4.0 | AXP (Alpha) | Digital cc | ||
| FreeBSD | 2.1.* | i86 | GCC-2.6.3 | |
| 3.X | i86 | GCC | ||
| 4.0-current | i86 | GCC-2.95.2 | ||
| HP-UX | 9.0.4 | PA-RISC | HP cc | |
| 10.02 | PA-RISC | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| Linux | 2.0.34 | i86/Athlon | GCC-2.7.2.1 | |
| 2.0.18 | Alpha | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| 2.0.20 | 68030 | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| 2.0.21 | PowerPC | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| 2.2.14 | MIPS R3000, big-endian | egcs-2.91.66 | ||
| SuSE Linux for IBM S/390 | IBM 9672 G6 Model Z X7 | gcc | ||
| psilinux (Debian ARM) | Psion 5MX | gcc 2.94.4 | ||
| MacOS X | Public Beta (1H39) | PowerMacintosh | cc/gcc | |
| MkLinux | R1, DR3 | PowerMacintosh | ||
| NetBSD | 1.3, 1.4 | i86 | ||
| 1.4 | AXP (Alpha) | |||
| 1.5 | SPARC | gcc 2.95.3 | ||
| 1.2 | m68k (Amiga 3000) | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| OpenBSD | 2.0 | i86 | GCC-2.7.2.1 | |
| 2.0 | m68k (Sun3) | GCC-2.7.2.1 | ||
| Psion | Linux based on Debian Woody for ARM, XFree 4.1.0 | Psion 5mx | GCC 3.04 | |
| IBM OS/2 | Warp 3.0 | i86 | GCC-2.7.2 | |
| Warp 4.0 | i86/Athlon | GCC-2.8.1 | ||
| QNX | QNX 6 | |||
| SGI/Irix | Irix 6.3 | irix cc | ||
| Sun | Solaris 2.4 | SPARC | GCC-2.7.2.1 | |
| Solaris 2.5 | SPARC | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| SunOS 4.1.4 | SPARC | GCC-2.7.2 | ||
| UnixWare | 2.1.2 | i86 | GCC | |
| 7 | i86 | GCC | ||
|
Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP | Cygwin | i86 | GCC | |
| Windows NT/2000 | AT&T and Wipro U/WIN | i86 | GCC | |
| Interix 2.2
(formerly Open NT) | i86 | GCC | ||