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[20070918]
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Compiling NetBSD with PCC, the Portable C Compiler (Updated)
Anders Magnusson
wrote
that he has been working on getting PCC, the ancient Unix Portable
C Compiler, working enough on NetBSD to build the NetBSD userland.
Benefits of PCC are that
the compiler is under a BSD license, and that
it is 5-10 times faster than GCC, cutting down build time of the
NetBSD userland
from
10 hours down to 2 hours.
PCC is available in pkgsrc/lang/pcc,
NetBSD build instructions are available.
The compiler aims at implementing the C99 standard right now,
and produces code for x86. Other platforms may be added eventually,
other languages like C++ are rather unlikely to be added.
For more information on the project, see the
homepage.
Update:
Jeremy Reed
has taught pkgsrc how to use PCC:
Get the latest pkgsrc, and set PKGSRC_COMPILER=pcc. Voila!
[Tags: pcc]
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