On my new macbook pro, after install xcode, I found:
Both gcc and clang are linking to LLVM 7.3. I guess gcc is just an alias of clang here, right?
As long as gcc supports -std=c++11 and -std=c++14 parameter, why the /usr/include/c++ only has a directory named "4.1.2"? I know gcc 4.1.2 is quite an old version,
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I'm trying to install Riak from source on macOS (https://docs.riak.com/riak/kv/2.2.3/setup/installing/mac-osx.1.html#installing-from-source).
There is a note:
Riak will not compile with Clang. Please make sure that your default
C/C++ compiler is GCC
How do I find out which compiler is the default and how to change it?
macOS Catalina (10.15.4), which command prints:
$ which clang
/usr/bin/clang
$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
On macOS Catalina (and prior versions, and most likely subsequent versions too), there are two aspects to the problem and some suggested solutions.
What is the name of the compiler used by make by default?
$ mkdir junk
$ cd junk
$ > x.cpp
$ > y.c
$ make x y
c++ x.cpp -o x
cc y.c -o y
$ cd ..
$ rm -fr junk
This shows that the names used by make are cc and c++. Those are not obviously clang or clang++, but neither are they obviously gcc and g++.
$ which cc c++
/usr/bin/cc
/usr/bin/c++
$
Which compiler is it really?
Which compiler really lives behind the names cc, c++, gcc, g++, clang, and clang++? We can check which compiler these really are by getting them to identify their version:
$ for compiler in cc c++ gcc g++ clang clang++
> do
> which $compiler
> $compiler --version
> done
/usr/bin/cc
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
/usr/bin/c++
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
/usr/bin/gcc
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
/usr/bin/g++
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
/usr/bin/clang
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
/usr/bin/clang++
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
$
As you can see, the versions installed in /usr/bin are all the same compiler, and that compiler is clang or clang++.
This was run on a machine with macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and XCode 11.3.1. The latest version of XCode — 11.4.1 — is only available on Catalina. However, the general conclusion is the same — all the C and C++ compilers are really clang and clang++ in disguise.
How do you get GNU GCC onto your machine?
How do you get a real GNU GCC — a real GCC, not clang in disguise — onto your machine?
Use Brew to install GCC (I've not checked which version of GCC is current).
Or use MacPorts (again, I've not checked which version of GCC is current).
If you're adventuresome, do it yourself (but I've not yet succeeded at building GCC 9.3.0 on Catalina; I have a GCC 9.2.0 built on macOS Mojave 10.14.x that works OK on Catalina though — with one environment variable needed to locate the headers).
Maybe Fink — it lists GCC 8.4 as being made available in 2020; I don't know about newer versions.
Be aware that Apple has taken to hiding the system header files miles out of the way (not in /usr/include — and you can't modify that part of the file system to add a symlink to where they've hidden them):
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include
(You mean you couldn't guess that? Me neither!)
How do you change the default compiler?
Once you have GCC installed somewhere appropriate, you need to ensure you use the 'real' GCC and not the 'fake' in /usr/bin. You do that in part by ensuring that the bin directory for the 'real' GCC occurs on your PATH before /usr/bin. I have GCC 9.3.0 installed under /opt/gcc/v9.3.0, so /opt/gcc/v9.3.0/bin appears on my PATH long before /usr/bin does.
You also need to ensure that the configuration for riak (the software you're installing) uses the correct compilers. If there's a ./configure script, run it with the correct path specified for the compilers. For example, I might use:
./configure CC=/opt/gcc/v9.3.0/bin/gcc CXX=/opt/gcc/v9.3.0/bin/g++
You can also set these values as environment variables.
If it uses cmake or some other configuration package, you'll need to consult the installation instructions. That's usually README or sometimes INSTALL.
See also (increasingly older posts):
Can't compile a C program on a Mac after upgrade to Catalina
Can't compile a C program on a Mac after upgrade to Mojave
Install GNU GCC on a Mac
I'm trying to build folly on centos 7 which the GCC version is 4.8.3.But it require GCC 4.9+ to support the c++14 features.Is it OK to compiled on GCC 4.9 and linked and used in GCC 4.8?
This is the first time I use clang. What I notices is that any error from clang referencing the std library looks like this:
/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../../include/c++/4.8/ostream:245:7:
^^^ ^^^ ^^^
So it looks like clang links — or at least includes — the gcc libraries.
The command I used: clang++ -c -Wall -Wextra -Werror -g test.cpp -o test.o. (The program had a intentional error just to prove this).
How is this possible? What can I do to make clang use its own libraries (but not break gcc)?
Additional information:
I am on a Ubuntu 14.04 machine.
clang++ --version
Ubuntu clang version 3.5-1ubuntu1 (trunk) (based on LLVM 3.5)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
g++ --version
g++ (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I had previously installed several versions (at the same time, used them with update-alternatives) of gcc with apt-get. Right now I have only 4.8 (I have uninstalled the others). Could I have messed up something then? I have never installed clang (I guess it is default with Ubuntu).
Just to clarify: the correct programs compile and run in clang++.
Further tests: I know that gcc didn’t implement yet types like is_trivially_constructible and move operations on iostream in their standard c++11 library (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html) and that clang has full c++11 conforming library so I tested those compiling with clang and I got the corresponding gcc errors, which only confirms that clang is using gcc libraries.
A very basic program
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
cout << "Yada Yada" << endl;
return 0;
}
gives this error when compiling with -std=c++1y in clang++:
In file included from /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../../include/c++/4.8/iostream:39:
...
/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../../include/c++/4.8/cstdio:120:11: error: no member named 'gets' in the global namespace
using ::gets;
~~^
So right now I can’t compile anything with c++1y in clang.
You need to install libc++ and make clang use it with -stdlib=libc++
I had similar issue: GCC (g++) already was installed on my LinuxMint (Ubuntu base) so when compile with clang, was getting an " error: no member named 'gets' in the global namespace using ::gets ".
resolved by installing libc++-dev (sudo apt-get install libc++-dev) and compiling with -stdlib++ (clang++ -g -std=c++1y -stdlib=libc++ helloworld.cpp -o helloworld)
Your real problem is that you're using C++14 (c++1y was the informal name used to refer to it when it wasn't yet fully formed), with a C++ library belonging to GCC 4.8. GCC 4.8 has complete C++11 support, but hardly even started on C++14 features.
This is caused by C++14 removing std::gets, and the GNU C library anticipating on that by not defining gets in the global namespace while the C++ library has not yet caught up and is trying to make it available in the std namespace.
The proper way to solve this does not require using libc++, just to use a C++ library with C++14 support. GLIBCXX 4.9 (aka libstdc++) already suffices.
Originally, I used clang++ with -std=c++11 compile my C++11 code, everything was OK. Recently, I updated the Xcode in AppStore, I compiled the SAME program in command line again, it doesn't work anymore, it shows errors like below:
/usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/stl_construct.h:81:38: error: no matching
constructor for initialization of
'std::basic_string'
::new(static_cast(__p)) T1(_value);
It seems the clang++ is using gcc's header files, apparently, gcc's version is very old. However, if I compile the same program by using Xcode, everything is fine.
It seems, at command line , the clang++ can't find the correct header files anymore.
More information, running command clang++ --version, following output:
Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0 Thread model: posix
which clang++
/usr/bin/clang++
RESOLVED with option -stdlib=libc++
clang++-mp-X.Y seems to trip up when told to use libc++
clang++-mp-X.Y -std=c++0x -std=libc++ SOME_SOURCE_FILE
Often generates errors which I do not see when using
clang++- -std=c++0x -std=libc++ SOME_SOURCE_FILE
I'm guessing that the system libc++ and system clang (XCode 4.2.1) are made for each other. How can I get macports's clang to use a version of libc++ that it will work with?
From libc++:
To use your tip-of-trunk libc++ on Mac OS with clang you can:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path-to-libcxx>/lib
clang++ -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -nostdinc++ -I<path-to-libcxx>/include -L<path-to-libcxx>/lib test.cpp