Compiling C file in OS X

Question

I am not familiar with OS X at all, and I need to compile a C file. Here is the code I use in Linux. What is the OS X version of those?

gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c myfile.c -o myfile.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -Wl,-z,relro -o myfile.so myfile.o -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to install Xcode , which is free, and will allow you to install gcc just by typing gcc in Terminal. From there on, you can just compile .c files using it. Also, you might want to just type gcc myfile.c -o myfile instead of adding all of those flags, because the OS X filesystem hiearchy is different from that of Linux, and adding those extra flags might make the command not work.