I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.
It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.
It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: https://github.com/ibara/libppc
I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.
And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.
My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.
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