14 DAY TRIAL // SUSE's Andreas Jaeger reports on the availability of an updated toolchain for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 operating system, bringing the latest tools designed for application development.
The updated toolchain included in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 comes with some of the latest and most advanced development utilities, such as GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6.2, GDB (GNU Debugger) 7.11.1, and GNU Binutils 2.26.1, thus enabling app developers to use the newest technologies when creating their amazing projects.
"Do you want to have better diagnostics when developing your C, C++, or Fortran code? Want to have applications that run faster and take advantage of new CPUs? Do you have code that benefits from vectorizing? Install the updated GNU toolchain [...] on your SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 systems," says Andreas Jaeger.
Therefore, if you're running SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 and you want to use GCC 6.2, GDB 7.11.1, and GNU Binutils 2.26.1 for application development, go ahead and install the updated toolchain via the toolchain module, which needs to be registered first. And if you're curious about the advantages of these tools, check out the official announcement.
While the new GDB and GNU Binutils versions are available as normal updates, GCC 6.2 must be installed via YaST or with zypper (e.g. zypper in gcc-6). Please note that after the installation of GCC 6.2, you'll have to use gcc-6 or g++-6 instead of gcc and g++ to compile your program. Have fun!