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The GNU Compiler Collection is a compiling system that supports several languages.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/docker-library/gcc

Library reference

This content is imported from the official Docker Library docs, and is provided by the original uploader. You can view the Docker Hub page for this image at https://hub.docker.com/images/gcc

Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links

Quick reference

Where to get help:
the Docker Community Forums, the Docker Community Slack, or Stack Overflow
Where to file issues:
https://github.com/docker-library/gcc/issues
Maintained by:
the Docker Community
Supported architectures: (more info)
amd64, arm32v5, arm32v7, arm64v8, ppc64le, s390x
Published image artifact details:
repo-info repo’s repos/gcc/ directory (history)
(image metadata, transfer size, etc)
Image updates:
official-images PRs with label library/gcc
official-images repo’s library/gcc file (history)
Source of this description:
docs repo’s gcc/ directory (history)
Supported Docker versions:
the latest release (down to 1.6 on a best-effort basis)

What is GCC?

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project that supports various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC has played an important role in the growth of free software, as both a tool and an example.

wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection

How to use this image

Start a GCC instance running your app

The most straightforward way to use this image is to use a gcc container as both the build and runtime environment. In your Dockerfile, writing something along the lines of the following will compile and run your project:

FROM gcc:4.9
COPY . /usr/src/myapp
WORKDIR /usr/src/myapp
RUN gcc -o myapp main.c
CMD ["./myapp"]

Then, build and run the Docker image:

$ docker build -t my-gcc-app .
$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-gcc-app

Compile your app inside the Docker container

There may be occasions where it is not appropriate to run your app inside a container. To compile, but not run your app inside the Docker instance, you can write something like:

$ docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp gcc:4.9 gcc -o myapp myapp.c

This will add your current directory, as a volume, to the container, set the working directory to the volume, and run the command gcc -o myapp myapp.c. This tells gcc to compile the code in myapp.c and output the executable to myapp. Alternatively, if you have a Makefile, you can instead run the make command inside your container:

$ docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp gcc:4.9 make

License

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As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in the repo-info repository’s gcc/ directory.

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user’s responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.

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