How do I install GCC via Homebrew?

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The solution provided by @Konrad Rudolph is not entirely correct anymore as the GCC formula that he mentioned was moved from homebrew/dupes to homebrew/versions. You can choose which version of GCC to install. For example, at the time of writing this answer, version 4.5, 4.7 and 4.8 are available. You may check out what versions are available here. In short, you can install GCC 4.8 by using brew tap homebrew/versions brew install [flags] gcc48 share improve this answer answered  Mar 24 at 16:32 yihangho 86 1 4

I tried this and I got it to install but it dies like this: gcc-4.8 hello.c gcc-4.8: error trying to exec 'as': execvp: No such file or directory –  Warren P  Mar 27 at 21:36   @WarrenP Did you install with any [flags]? On my machines, I installed without any flags and it works fine. Why not you try to call gcc-4.8 without any input file and see if you get a fatal error? Also try to ls /usr/local/Cellar/gcc48/4.8.0/bin and see if that directory contains gcc-4.8. –  yihangho  Mar 28 at 9:28   It does contain gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.8 --version runs but it can't exec out to the secondary tool named as and so it dies. –  Warren P  Mar 28 at 12:19   Hmm... Frankly I have no idea how to solve this. Maybe we have to wait for some more experienced user... –  yihangho  Mar 29 at 0:57   How to add g++ as a command in my terminal? do I have to soft link/usr/local/Cellar/gcc48/4.8.1/bin/g++48 in my /usr/bin? –  nkint  Jun 7 at 14:32 show 1 more comment

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Homebrew solution To answer my own question, homebrew-versions now has a fairly up to date formula of GCC. It can be installed using brew install [flags] https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-versions/gcc48.rb Where [flags] should include all the required languages, e.g. (--enable-cxx --enable-fortran). This will install the executables with a suffix, i.e. gcc has to be accessed as gcc-version to avoid clashes. If necessary, one can create appropriate symlinks to make this version the default. Manual installation Alternatively, an up-to-date GCC (as of the time of writing) can be compiled manually using the following shell script: VERSION=4.7.0 PREFIX=/usr/gcc-$(VERSION) LANGUAGES=c,c++,fortran MAKE=make # Or # MAKE='make -j 4' # to compile using four cores brew-path() { brew info $1 | head -n3 | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1; } # Prerequisites brew install gmp brew install mpfr brew install libmpc # Download & install the latest GCC mkdir -p $PREFIX mkdir temp-gcc cd temp-gcc wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-$VERSION/gcc-$VERSION.tar.gz tar xfz gcc-$VERSION.tar.gz rm gcc-$VERSION.tar.gz cd gcc-$VERSION mkdir build cd build ../configure \ --prefix=$PREFIX \ --with-gmp=$(brew-path gmp) \ --with-mpfr=$(brew-path mpfr) \ --with-mpc=$(brew-path libmpc) \ --program-suffix=-$VERSION \ --enable-languages=$LANGUAGES \ --with-system-zlib \ --enable-stage1-checking \ --enable-plugin \ --enable-lto \ --disable-multilib $MAKE bootstrap make install # Uncomment for cleanup … # cd ../../.. # rm -r temp-gcc This will stage GCC into the path /usr/gcc-4.7.0. Now all you need to do is either create symlinks to the executables or add the bin directory to the $PATH variable.