I'm a little new in this area. I have a virtual machine centos5.1 that doesn't come with make or any compiler… basically stripped down. It doesn't come with any install packages like yum, rpm or apt. In order to install 'make', you have to have a valid compiler like gcc. However, in order to compile GCC, you need to have 'make'. How do I go about installing these dev tools?
How to install gnu MAKE without compiler
centosgnumake
Best Answer
Cross-compile the toolchain on another system to your target architecture (whatever the VM is emulating) and then copy it over via FTP or SCP.