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Linux generally comes installed with the free gcc compiler. MacOSX does too. But when you compile a program with gcc, it runs on the platform under which it was compiled. Therefore, programmers on OSX that need to deliver a Linux binary need to use gcc's cross-compiler mode to produce Linux binaries.

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