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Hi all,

I haven’t used RISCOS for 20 years (having been absorbed by the MS large database world for some time). Bought an RPi to get back into real programming and found that I have forgotten almost everything.

My Pi isn’t connected to the internet. I want to install GCC on it. I’ve downloaded the package onto a USB key and have both it zipped and unzipped, and can see it in Pi-world, but how do I install the package? Is there a way I can get Packman to see it and then uninstall it?

Sorry if this sounds absolutely noddy and you are all laughing your heads off, but any advice very much welcome. Thanks,

Mark

You might be able to drag it to PackMan’s icon to get it installed, but I’m not sure if that’s a current or a planned feature. Otherwise make sure you have all the bits from here (except SharedUnixLib, which you already have):
http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCC
and follow the readme inside the Zip. Don’t forget, always unzip things on RISC OS, not on other platforms.

Double-click on the !GCC application. You can now use the gcc, g++, make, etc. commands.

You can automate this process to happen on bootup by adding !GCC to the list of applications to be run on startup (Configure window, Boot section, drag the app into the list).

Oh, and welcome back!

Mark, I am in the exact same position as you. I even had a A3000 back in the day, but now i cant manage to do anything. Have you managed to unzip stuff yet? I plan to tackle that tomorrow.

I have done nothing with computers outside of using windows and playing XBox. Hoping to change that now though