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How can I install GCC 4.8 on Raspberry Pi? Do I need to compile it from source? Should I update from Raspbian wheezy to a newer version?

syb0rg
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In 2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy is gcc-4.8 already as package (4.8.2), but not default. You can install it apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 and then change the links in /usr/bin/

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As long as your Raspberry Pi is up to date, then you can just download and patch GCC 4.8 to run on you Raspberry Pi.

  1. Download GCC sources

    $ wget ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/snapshots/LATEST-4.8/*.bz2

  2. Extract sources

    $ tar xf gcc-4.8-20120826.tar.bz2

  3. Patch sources

    We need to get and apply two debian specific patches for GCC:

    $ wget http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/gcccvs/branches/sid/gcc-4.7/debian/patches/armhf-triplet.diff?view=co -O armhf-triplet.diff
$ wget http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/gcccvs/branches/sid/gcc-4.7/debian/patches/gcc-multiarch-trunk.diff?view=co -O gcc-multiarch-trunk.diff
$ cd gcc-4.8-20120826
$ patch -p2 -i ../armhf-triplet.diff
$ patch -p2 -i ../gcc-multiarch-trunk.diff

    Note: There will be a failed patch in libgcc, don't worry about it, as it's already been applied to gcc-4.8.

  4. Recreate .autoconf files:

    $ cd gcc
$ autoconf2.64
$ cd ../libjava
$ autoconf2.64
$ cd ../

  5. Compile and install GCC: configure; make; make install

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syb0rg
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  • Not configure/make install anymore? – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Dec 17 '13 at 07:17
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    What does autoconf2.64 do? – HeatfanJohn Dec 18 '13 at 14:20
  • It appears that the gcc 4.8 snapshot you linked to (step 1) is no longer online. They only seem to keep the last 3 months or so of builds. wget ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/snapshots/LATEST-4.8/*.bz2 should do the trick to get their latest build of gcc 4.8. There's also a LATEST-4.9 and LATEST-4.10 folder as well. – Ponkadoodle Jul 02 '14 at 23:50
  • So after step 4, we still have to do the whole configure; make; make install commands? Because I'm not seeing any binaries, and gcc --version still reports 4.6. – Ponkadoodle Jul 03 '14 at 00:36
  • @Wallacoloo Yes, you do. I just walked through the process of patching GCC 4.8 so that it could compile properly. – syb0rg Jul 03 '14 at 00:39
  • For step (3) I get: Not Found – Nathan B Apr 22 '21 at 15:32
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In case any of these options haven't worked for you (or you're running something newer), you can try this. I'm running Raspian with desktop (without included software) on a Raspberry Pi 4.

I went into /etc/apt/ and modified sources.list. The second line in my file says:

# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi

After that, run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, then finally:

sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8

***Side note: If you're also wanting to install g++-4.8 (like I was, for tensorflow), you'll need to add these two lines to your sources.list file:

deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

Again, sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, and then:

sudo apt-get install g++-4.8
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I tried the above -- ran into several issues. This might be easier (I'm trying it now):

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=65516&p=481730

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    If you could post the gist of the directions here, that'd be great! It helps prevent link rot if anything ever changes on the linked site. – Fred Mar 30 '14 at 19:37
  • The downside to this solution is that it forces you to update you ENTIRE system to Debian Jessie. This may very well cause compatibility issues for some users (myself included). – Ponkadoodle Jul 03 '14 at 00:04
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