How to install GCC/G++ 8 on CentOS

Question

I'm used to install packages on Debian/Ubuntu distributions, but now I need to install gcc and g++ version 8.*. There is only version 4.* in CentOS repositories. What's the correct way to install them manually?

Answer 1

CentOS 8 already comes with GCC 8.

On CentOS 7, you can install GCC 8 from Developer Toolset. First you need to enable the Software Collections repository:

yum install centos-release-scl

Then you can install GCC 8 and its C++ compiler:

yum install devtoolset-8-gcc devtoolset-8-gcc-c++

To switch to a shell which defaults gcc and g++ to this GCC version, use:

scl enable devtoolset-8 -- bash

You need to wrap all commands under the scl call, so that the process environment changes performed by this command affect all subshells. For example, you could use the scl command to invoke a shell script that performs the required actions.