December 3, 1997
We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.
EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers using an open development model to accelerate development and testing of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.
An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of experimental features and optimizations; therefore, EGCS contains some features and optimizations which are still under development. However, EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to most GCC releases.
EGCS 1.0 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8 development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found in GCC 2.8.
EGCS 1.0 also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7 and even the soon to be released GCC 2.8 compilers.
See the new features page for a more complete list of new features.
The EGCS 1.0 release includes installation instructions in both HTML and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel directory of the EGCS 1.0 distribution). However, we also keep the most up to date installation instructions and build/test status on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes available.
And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some caveats to using EGCS.
Update: The T1 into our main California offices has been 100% saturated since shortly after the release. We've added an EGCS 1.0 mirror at our Massachusetts office to help share the load. We also encourage folks to use the many mirrors available throughout the world.
Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for downloading EGCS! (go.cygnus.com)
Download EGCS 1.0 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)
Download EGCS 1.0 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High speed link provided by Stanford)
The EGCS 1.0 release should be available on most mirror sites by now.
Goto mirror list to find a closer site
We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too numerous to mention by name.