5. Silicon Graphics and Irix

Several SGI machines on campus are running an old version of Irix, e.g., 5.3. SGI do not bundle a C compiler with the operating system. One can of course use the GCC. Alternatively, SGI offer the Iris Development Option (IDO) for Irix 5.3 for free download:

http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/apis/ido.html

Having downloaded the distribution/package, proceed as follows:

inst -f path

where path is where the untarred distribution. Then, within inst

install c_dev install compiler_dev install irix4_c go

The compiler installs in /usr/bin.