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		GordonS on Dec 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and ... I compiled GCC from source recently - it took several hours on an 8-core Xeon with 64GB of RAM. Lots of projects take a long time to build, so it's not a show-stopper by any means. I imagine you could also mix precompiled parts with parts you compiled from source too.

megous on Dec 5, 2018 [–]

Normally, it takes a few minutes on 4-core 6 year old i5 ivy bridge to build a cross-compiler for C/C++.

Just not to scare someone off, from building gcc. :] It's fun.

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