clang seems to use the gcc libraries

Question

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)?

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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.

Answer 1

You need to install libc++ and make clang use it with -stdlib=libc++

Answer 2

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)