It may take a few hours for the compilation to complete, so sit back and relax. Once it is completed, run the following command to compile the source code. configure -disable-multilib -enable-languages=c,c++ Once the prerequisites are downloaded execute the following command to start configuring the GCC build environment. You have to run this from the top level of the GCC source tree.

Install bzip2 and run the ‘download_prerequisites’ script to download some prerequisites needed by GCC. Unpack the tar archive and change the current working directory tar zxf gcc-7.3.0.tar.gz In our example we will use GCC version 7.3.0 wget Run the following command screen -U -S gccĭownload the tarball of the GCC version you want to install. It is highly recommended to start a screen session before starting the installation. If you need a newer version of GCC than the one distributed by the official CentOS 7 repositories you can install it from source. It will automatically include the C++ library and compile files with extensions that indicate they are C source as C++, instead of as C. Warranty not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.Īs might be seen from the output, the GCC version distributed by CentOS 7 is 4.8.5 which is not the latest version of GCC. This is free software see the source for copying conditions. Once the installation is completed, you can the version of GCC installed on your server gcc -version

Run the following command to install GCC on your server yum -y install gcc GCC can be easily installed from the official CentOS repositories. Installing GCC on CentOS 7, is really an easy task and it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes.įirst of all log in to your CentOS 7 VPS via SSH as user root ssh _Address -p Port_numberĪnd make sure that all installed packages on the server are up to date yum -y update 2. GCC is an official compiler of the GNU operating system but also it is a standard compiler on many Unix operating systems such as Linux. GCC or GNU Compiler Collection is released by the Free Software Foundation and as the name suggests, it is a very useful collection of programming compilers such as C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran, Java, Go and Ada. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how to install GCC on CentOS 7.

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