Installing GCC on Oracle Solaris 11

Question

i recently got Oracle Solaris on my VM to test some code on it, i was unable to install gcc since i dont really know how, i googled alot but all info is about oracle compile

Answer 1

The original answer applied to Solaris 11 Express/non-official release - if you're doing this today with a full release of Solaris 11.x, use the pkg install command like you see in xavier's response.

Run this command from your terminal to install GCC.

For GCC 3.4.x

pkg install gcc-3

For GCC 4.5.x

pkg install gcc-45

For GCC 4.7.x

pkg install gcc-47

For GCC 4.8.x

pkg install gcc-48

The gcc command should then already be placed in your path /usr/bin/gcc, which is a symlink).

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Old Answer Solaris 11 should already have gcc installed in /usr/sfw/bin/, but it's probably not in your PATH. Try this at the prompt: /usr/sfw/bin/gcc