GCC G++

GCC is a very mature GPL-licensed collection of compilers, perhaps best-known for working with C and C++ programs. Its free software license and near ubiquity on free Unix-like systems like Linux and BSD has made it enduringly popular for these purposes, though more modern alternatives are available in compilers using the LLVM infrastructure, such as Clang.




"The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...). GCC was originally written as the compiler for the GNU operating system. The GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that it respects the user's freedom."

To install the gcc and g++ compilers, you will need the build-essential package. This will also install GNU make.

• dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5)

  Debian package development tools

• g++ (>= 4:4.4.3)

  GNU C++ compiler

• gcc (>= 4:4.4.3)

  GNU C compiler

• libc6-dev

  Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files

  or libc-dev

  virtual package provided by libc6-dev

• make

  An utility for Directing compilation.