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Why would you need an Apple account to install any other compiler besides XCode - something you wouldn’t be doing with Linux?

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There's no pre-installed compilers on it (at least as of 2013) and Homebrew needed me to install XCode first before it could do anything.

Admittedly I stopped looking into it and just shelfed the laptop until requesting a saner one.

Which compilers?

Well, none? To install GCC, Homebrew wanted me to install XCode first. That’s when I gave up because nothing was installed there by default except for an outdated Bash.

http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/12/install-command-line-tools-ma...

But more to the point. Even if you didn’t know about that option you gave up because you didn’t want to sign up for a free account?

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