FreeBSD installation procedure

[hukadan]

Hi FreeBSD users and everyone else.

I read the documentation concerning the FreeBSD installation procedure and I was wondering if an alternate solution could be added. I have NodeBB running on FreeBSD but I did not need gcc at all. The packages I needed to install where the following.

% pkg query -e '%a = 0' %o
devel/git
devel/gmake
www/nginx
www/npm
databases/redis

So what is the technical reason to install gcc? Did you in the past encountered problem while building without it ?

Thank you.