Update GCC on OSX

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So I am a new programmer and I just installed XCode on my Macbook to get the GCC. I think Xcode is the only way for getting GCC on OSX. Now when I run my Hello World application, in C++, g++ comes up saying it is version 4.0.1 but when I look for commands starting with g I also see g++-4.2. Is there any way of making 4.2 default rather than 4.0.1, and also is there a way to updating gcc to the latest version 4.4.0?

EDIT: Ok, so I installed macports and installed gcc4.4 and it shows up on terminal as gcc-mp-4.4 and how do I make it default with gcc_select, like what are the commands and stuff. Thanks.

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If you install macports you can install gcc select, and then choose your gcc version.

/opt/local/bin/port install gcc_select

To see your versions use

port select --list gcc

To select a version use 

sudo port select --set gcc gcc40
Milhous_177120

use "gcc_select -l"

> gcc_select -l

gcc40 mp-gcc44

> gcc_select mp-gcc44

Admin1

You can have multiple versions of GCC on your box, to select the one you want to use call it with full path, e.g. instead of g++ use full path /usr/bin/g++ on command line (depends where your gcc lives).

For compiling projects it depends what system do you use, I'm not sure about Xcode (I'm happy with default atm) but when you use Makefiles you can set GXX=/usr/bin/g++ and so on.

EDIT

There's now a xcrun script that can be queried to select appropriate version of build tools on mac. Apart from man xcrun I've googled this explanation about xcode and command line tools which pretty much summarizes how to use it.

user_456540

You can install your GCC manually

either through 

sudo port install gcc46

or your download the source code from one of the mirrors from here for example here

tar xzvf gcc-4.6.0.tar.gz cd gcc-4.6.0 ./configure make

well if you have multiple version, then through you can choose one

port select --list gcc

remember port on mac is called macport https://www.macports.org/install.php and add add the bin into your path export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin

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