with the release of the newest Chromebook and Chromebox (where the latter is an interesting choice for a family PC for people who don't need apps like photoshop etc.), I wanted to check out a dual-boot capability for myself.

My question now (I have found the possibility to fire up a normal linux console under Chrome OS, but for me to use this system at university, I will need a C/C++ compiler and a (more or less advanced) text editor. The last one should be available on the chrome web store (or however that's called), but I can't find anything for the compiler.

TL;DR: Is there a c/c++ compiler on chrome OS? (ssh-ing into a server with an compiler is not really an option as it doesn't provide offline coding possibilities - on a bus, on a train etc.)

2 Answers

You'll probably need to build it yourself.

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If anyone is still ending up on this page, check out chromebrew or crouton both of which provide solutions, one in the chromeos shell the other in its own linux environment.