How to update g++ compiler on OSX
I know this post is a little old but I can shine some light regarding how to accomplish this.
Firstly, to install gcc
/g++
using Homebrew, you should use the following command as mentioned in the comments above: brew install gcc
After doing this, Homebrew should place the installed binaries/symlinks in the correct folders.
To correctly setup the gcc
/g++
command on mac to use the version you just downloaded, I do this by not changing the symlinks gcc
/g++
but instead creating aliases for both gcc
and g++
within my shell environment.
alias gcc='gcc-10'
alias g++='g++-10'
gcc-10
and g++-10
were downloaded using Homebrew. When doing this, Homebrew places gcc-10
and g++-10
in /usr/local/bin (which is on the path) and it allows you to create an alias for the regular gcc
/g++
commands which point to the versions installed by Homebrew.
After doing this, running the command g++ --version
should give you the following:
g++-10 (Homebrew GCC 10.2.0) 10.2.0
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
You may need to restart your terminal or run source ~/.bashrc
depending on the type of shell you're using.
Brittany Garcia
Updated on August 15, 2020Comments
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Brittany Garcia almost 4 years
I tried using this tutorial to download the newest version of g++, and I changed the version number from 4.7 to the newest (which is believe is) 8.1. But I get the following errors
Error: No available formula with the name "gcc81" ==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)... Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run: git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow Error: No previously deleted formula found. ==> Searching for similarly named formulae... ==> Searching local taps... Error: No similarly named formulae found. ==> Searching taps... ==> Searching taps on GitHub... Error: No formulae found in taps.
Does anyone know how to update my g++ version? This is what I get when I try to find out my current version.
g++ --version Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.1) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin
Sorry Im such a noob, I really trying to learn here.