From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:54:55 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] cc In-Reply-To: <20060105164414.GA28866@lucifier.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060105164414.GA28866@lucifier.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: d2b3e704-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > i've decided to take a look at the plan9's cc as i was told > it has a reasonable bsd-compatible license so maybe we can > use it for smth here. however the problem seems to be that > i cannot download just the compiler anywhere (or am i just > too stupid? ;) and dowloading the system seems to be restricted > under crypto export control and i am actually not in usa. > can smb hint me onto what's a proper way to get the cc srcs > or point me to some rtfm plz? > 10x > cu The version of the compiler that is under BSD license (or some such) is the one distributed with Inferno. Download http://www.vitanuova.com/dist/4e/20050720/utils.tgz and extract it. Then extract the numbered.gz file you just got using http://morphisms.net/~wkj/Software/9e/9e.c gunzip < numbered.gz | 9e You should be able to download the Plan 9 CD (same compiler source, different license) just fine. Go to http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ureg.html, check the two boxes, submit, and then download the Install CD, which has a complete system on it. There are mirrors that don't have the silly form: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Download/index.html Russ