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[{"user_id": 7376, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308276504.18016, "message": "so I was trying to create a new virtualenv on my macmini and I'm told I need to install Apple's development tools.  Am I stuck buying XCode now?", "group_id": 292, "id": 1415631}, {"user_id": 13325, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308277851.731245, "message": "What it needs from XCode is gcc and some other things", "group_id": 292, "id": 1415726}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308277524.0455999, "message": "XCode is free (beer). All you have to do is join their dev network, which is a 1 minute sign-up at http://developer.apple.com/xcode/", "group_id": 292, "id": 1415688}, {"user_id": 3880, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308281684.235841, "message": "Xcode 3.2.6 should work and its available with the free adc membership", "group_id": 292, "id": 1415908}, {"user_id": 18845, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308289052.502872, "message": "XCode 4 is in fact not free. Unless you pay $99 to be a Dev.  It makes me sad :(", "group_id": 292, "id": 1416289}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308289779.9621091, "message": "@gourneau yeah but it's only $5. Doesn't really matter since most apple builds don't support gcc > 4.2.0", "group_id": 292, "id": 1416361}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308289825.967679, "message": "The real shame is that they are 4 years behind gcc :(", "group_id": 292, "id": 1416368}, {"user_id": 6836, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308575105.240129, "user_id": 1243}], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308291009.021481, "message": "@caseywstark In fairness, they're focused on the Clang/LLVM toolchain now. @riq is right that the freely-available 3.2.6 should meet the OP's needs.", "group_id": 292, "id": 1416472}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308462726.4402609, "user_id": 31883}], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308311078.5737, "message": "http://zachholman.com/2011/03/osx-isnt-for-developers/", "group_id": 292, "id": 1418240}, {"user_id": 16118, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308378378.7636769, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308320988.8823659, "message": "@kennethreitz great article, and sums up my feelings exactly", "group_id": 292, "id": 1419384}, {"user_id": 7376, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308333595.1857519, "message": "I guess I'm just going to use Ubuntu on my macmini.  It's essentially just a seedbox these days anyway.", "group_id": 292, "id": 1421119}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308403203.7007191, "message": "You won't be able to once 10.7 comes out, but in the meantime, xcode4 is really a 10.7 dev suite", "group_id": 292, "id": 1426427}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308403171.872601, "message": "Installing the old xcode is perfectly fine too.", "group_id": 292, "id": 1426425}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308403178.8869741, "message": "It has the same GCC anyway", "group_id": 292, "id": 1426426}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308403231.748138, "message": "A few commands (e.g. purge) are filled with errors on 10.6 that are gone in 10.7", "group_id": 292, "id": 1426429}, {"user_id": 20981, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308575130.247205, "user_id": 1243}], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308446780.7057109, "message": "I didn't see it mentioned here but Xcode 3 is available on your Snow Leopard install disc in the Optional Installs folder.", "group_id": 292, "id": 1429439}, {"user_id": 12236, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308499974.391186, "message": "Free developer account has Xcode 3.2.6 for free. Xcode 4 isn't necessary if you just want gcc.", "group_id": 292, "id": 1432123}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1308586194.115289, "message": "@ascarter that's correct now. What disturbs me is the prospect that it might no longer be correct under Lion, according to @kennethreitz's link. That would be a punk-ass move by Apple for sure.", "group_id": 292, "id": 1439819}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [{"date_created": 1309483807.2953489, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1309436941.6592929, "message": "Apple no longer provide XCode with Macbook Airs, for example. It's difficult nowadays to find a way tog et XCode without signing an Apple developer agreement (which I will not do.)", "group_id": 292, "id": 1527356}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1309483815.5749731, "message": "@holdenweb smart move :)", "group_id": 292, "id": 1536381}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1309499678.3821459, "message": "https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Bootstrapping-CC", "group_id": 292, "id": 1537854}, {"user_id": 12817, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1309499144.9327519, "message": "Maybe someone needs to take matters into their own hands and build and distribute their own GCC binaries for OS X. Which begs the question, what does one build GCC with?", "group_id": 292, "id": 1537809}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39602, "date_created": 1309499689.7913151, "message": "@adambrenecki: ^^", "group_id": 292, "id": 1537858}]