C-linker for Mac without Xcode?

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Am new to Rust and am running it on a 2015 MacBook Air with limited disk space.

I cannot install Xcode because it takes too much space so I am wondering if I can run a C linker on VS Code, Terminal or some other IDE for Mac?

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You only need the "Xcode command line tools". Those have nothing to do with Xcode, they are just the standard Unix C and C++ toolchain, and they occupy much less space. (Apple loves to conflate everything programming-related with their IDE, but it's unnecessary for most things.)

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Thank you!
I didn't know that. I learned something new today. :grinning:

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