Sure. (: My (outsider's) opinion of OSX is that it's an unholy marriage of the command line and the desktop environment. With a *nix, everything is about uniformly difficult. With Windows uniformly easy, with a price of course. It seems like Apple tries to sweep the technical stuff under the rug, and so when it's the technical stuff you want you have to do some digging. And, yeah, frankly I don't know how people learn about this stuff organically these days.
Hopefully somebody knows the answer to your question, but unlike most of the things you do with OSX you don't just need to know what you need, or where to find it, you need to know how to install it. And for that I'd recommend Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=gcc+osx I looked around, and the first one will answer your question. I don't know if it's the best answer, but it's one that'll work. (: Cheers, Joe On Oct 12, 12:54 pm, "G." <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you both very much. This has definitely got me moving somewhere, > at least the ./configure command is recognized now. The new issue is > that I don't seem to have other programs necessary to configure > dvipng; viz. "gcc" (?). > > I did a search and found this website with a download (http:// > gcc.gnu.org/ ) & followed the download link etc etc, but **could not > figure out which of the many files there I actually needed to > download.** Sorry to take up your time with such novice questions. > Again, if there is a resource online that introduces new users to this > vast world of completely new terminology and procedures, I'd be very > interested; though I'm starting to suspect the struggle is a rite of > passage! > > Best, > > - Abel > > On Oct 11, 9:01 pm, Jason Axelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When you open up terminal, you're in your user directory. Let's > > > suppose that "configure" is in the "dvipng" directory, which is in > > > your "downloads" directory, which is in your user directory. Then > > > you'd type "./downloads/dvipng/configure &" without the quotes, or > > > whatever commands it tells you, but replacing "./" with "./downloads/ > > > dvipng/". If there is no "./" in the command it tells you, then you > > > don't need to specify a directory: "./" means "this directory", so if > > > the command doesn't have it it's directory independent. > > > I have a couple things to add to this since I've used a Mac before > > (although I primarily use Linux). The Downloads folder is capitalized > > with a capital D. Also an easy way to change directory is to first > > type "cd " (don't forget the space after) and then go to the finder > > and drag the folder you want to go to into the terminal window, that > > will fill out the path for you. After that, just press enter and now > > you are in that directory and can run the commands like you did > > initially. > > > Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
