Help with GCC/Making an operating system

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I am following a tutorial on youtube for making a basic operating system.
I need to run i386-elf-gcc, but I don’t know how to install it on replit without sudo privs…
Does anyone know how to get it with Nix, or some other way without sudo?

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Welcome!

You can search up all the Nix packages here, but I don’t think they have it.

But if you find something there, then you can add it to the replit.nix file like so:

{ pkgs }: {
    deps = [
        # examples of nix packages:
        pkgs.python310Packages.flask
        pkgs.cowsay
        pkgs.gcc12
        # other stuff ....
    ];
}

Hope this helps!

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You know any other way to install packages without root?

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I don’t sorry, Nix is the only way I know how to do it.

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Actually, there is another way. Ever heard of PRoot?
By downloading a rootfs, such as Alpine Linux, you can use proot like chroot and gain root privileges inside of the rootfs.

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