2 tips to make your C++ projects compile 3 times faster

By Konrad Kleine May 15, 2019September 3, 2019

In this article, I will demonstrate how to speed up your compilation times by distributing compilation load using a distcc server container. Specifically, I’ll show how to set up and use containers running a distcc server to distribute the compilation load over a heterogeneous cluster of nodes (development laptop, old desktop PC, and a Mac). To improve the speed of recompilation, I will use ccache.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux compiler toolset updates: Clang/LLVM 7.0, Go 1.11, Rust 1.31

By Mike Guerette March 29, 2019April 1, 2019

We are pleased to announce the general availability of these three compiler toolsets for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

Clang/LLVM 7.0
Go 1.11
Rust 1.31

These toolsets can be installed from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Devtools channel. See the “Compiler toolset details” section of this article to learn about the new features.

These toolsets became officially supported Red Hat offerings as of the previous release.

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How to install GCC 8 and Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

By Rob Terzi March 5, 2019March 26, 2019

There has been a lot of work to improve C/C++ compilers in recent years. A number of articles have been posted by Red Hat engineers working on the compilers themselves covering usability improvements, features to detect possible bugs, and security issues in your code.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta ships with GCC 8 as the default compiler. This article shows you how to install GCC 8 as well as Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. You’ll be able to use the same updated (and supported) compilers from Red Hat on both RHEL 7 and 8.

If you want your default gcc to always be GCC 8, or you want clang to always be in your path, this article shows how to permanently enable a software collection by adding it to the profile (dot files) for your user account. A number of common questions about software collections are also answered.

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Clang/LLVM 6.0, Go 1.10, and Rust 1.29 NOW GA for RHEL

By Mike Guerette November 13, 2018November 14, 2018

We are pleased to announce general availability of these 3 compiler toolsets for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. These versions are now officially supported Red Hat offerings:

Clang/LLVM 6.0
Go 1.10
Rust 1.29

These toolsets can be installed from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Devtools channel. See the “New compiler details” below to learn about the new features.

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Clang/LLVM 6.0, Go 1.10, and Rust 1.29 now in beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

By Mike Guerette October 24, 2018October 23, 2018

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of these three compiler toolsets now in beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Upon the GA release, these versions will become officially supported Red Hat offerings:

Clang/LLVM 6.0
Go 1.10
Rust 1.29

These toolsets can be installed from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Devtools channel. See the “New compiler details” below to learn about the new features.

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How to install Clang/LLVM 5 and GCC 7 on RHEL

By Rob Terzi July 7, 2018March 7, 2019

A newer version of this article is available: How to install GCC 8 and Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

If you are developing with C/C++, Clang tools and newer versions of GCC can be quite helpful for checking your code and giving you better warnings and error messages to help avoid bugs. The newer compilers have better optimizations and code generation.

You can easily install the latest-supported Clang and GCC compilers for C, C++, Objective-C, and FORTRAN using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These compilers are available as software collections that are typically updated twice a year. The May 2018 update included Clang/LLVM 5 and GCC 7.3, as well as Go and Rust.

If you want your default gcc to always be GCC 7, or you want clang to always be in your path, this article shows how to permanently enable a software collection by adding it to the profile (dot files) for your user account. A number of common questions about software collections are also answered.

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Announcing GA for latest Software Collections, Developer Toolset, Compilers

By Mike Guerette May 3, 2018November 15, 2018

We are pleased to announce the general availability of:

Red Hat Software Collections 3.1 (including Ruby 2.5, Perl 2.26, PHP 7.0.27, PostgreSQL 10, MongoDB 3.6, Varnish 5, HAProxy 1.8, Apache 2.4 update)
Red Hat Developer Toolset 7.1 (GCC 7.3)
Clang/LLVM 5.0, Go 1.8.7, Rust 1.25.0

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New Red Hat compilers toolsets in beta: Clang and LLVM, GCC, Go, Rust

By Mike Guerette April 6, 2018November 15, 2018

Twice a year, Red Hat distributes new versions of compiler toolsets, scripting languages, open source databases, and/or web tools, etc. so that application developers will have access to the latest, stable versions. These Red Hat supported offerings are packaged as Red Hat Software Collections (scripting languages, open source databases, web tools, etc.), Red Hat Developer Toolset (GCC), and the recently added compiler toolsets Clang/LLVM, Go, and Rust. All are yum installable, and are included in most Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions and all Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscriptions. Most Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset components are also available as Linux container images for hybrid cloud development across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, etc.

The new/updated compiler toolsets are:

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Announcing release of Software Collections, Developer Toolset, new compilers

By Mike Guerette October 25, 2017November 15, 2018

I am pleased to announce the general availability of numerous Red Hat curated collections of the latest, stable application development tools, languages, compilers, databases, and more. Created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, developers can access these via the following open source offerings:

Red Hat Software Collections
Red Hat Developer Toolset
New RHEL Compilers: Clang/LLVM, Go, and Rust

Components delivered as Linux Containers can also be used on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

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Red Hat adds Go, Clang/LLVM, Rust compiler toolsets; updates GCC

By Mike Guerette October 4, 2017November 15, 2018

I am pleased to announce immediate availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 7.0 Beta and three new compiler toolsets for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Delivered on a separate lifecycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a more frequent release cadence, Red Hat Developer Toolset and compilers bridge development agility and production stability by helping you create performant applications that can be confidently deployed into production.

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This beta release brings these exciting new compilers to our Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings:

Developer Toolset 7 beta adds a major update of GCC 7.2 and supporting toolchain
Addition of Clang/LLVM 4.0.1 compiler set – Technology Preview*
Addition of Go 1.8.3 compiler – Technology Preview*
Addition of Rust 1.20 compiler – Technology Preview*

Install the new additions via yum install from the new Devtools channel.

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