Installing Open Source softwares on Mac OS X is very easy as other OS like Unix/Linux. Whenever you want to install open source software on your Mac OS X you need gcc compiler. For gcc compiler you need to install Xcode Tools which is available from http://connect.apple.com/

We hope you already has a Apple Developer Connection account. If not then you’ll need to register an account. Just login with your account and click Download Software and then Developer Tools. There you can find Download link of Xcode Tools.

Just double click on Xcode (Disk Image) link which is shown in above image and follow the installation instructions to install gcc and a host of other development applications.

After successfully installing Xcode Tools you can find gcc under /usr/bin/

I hope you will enjoy this howto. You feedback is highly appreciated.