Devtoolset for Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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So we can use “Development Tools” from future e.g. Rocky 10.4 on Rocky 8.4 without upgrading the OS.

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devtoolset: GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Debugger, and other development, debugging, and performance monitoring tools

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-8/

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“Rocky 10.4”?

What actual tools do you want to use? Rocky 8.4 has gcc-toolset-10 in AppStream.

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how to get toolset on Rocky Linux 8.5. the newest version has come to devtoolset-11.2
many codes runs and compiles much faster with gcc-11 than with gcc 8

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Do you want whole toolset or just what it takes to build programs? I do the latter and hence install just the “toolchain” metapackage.

What do you get with dnf list gcc-toolset-*-toolchain?
Perhaps:

gcc-toolset-10-toolchain.x86_64      10.1-0.el8       appstream
gcc-toolset-11-toolchain.x86_64      11.0-1.el8       appstream
gcc-toolset-9-toolchain.x86_64       9.0-4.el8        appstream

To get the 11, I would sudo dnf install gcc-toolset-11-toolchain
The sudo dnf install gcc-toolset-11 would pull in more packages.

These toolsets continue the Software Collections style. You can see what “scl” you have installed with:
scl list-collections
and you can get a bash session, where bash finds GCC 11 with:
scl enable gcc-toolset-11 bash

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Thks. just to build programs. I am a user of rockylinux OS for computing.