how to install gcc 16.1 on silicon mac ???

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 31 May 2026, 22:11 Stuff Received, <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:

> On 2026-05-31 15:50, Michael LeVine via Gcc-help wrote:
> > How to I configure gcc 16.1 to build a compiler (all I need is fortran),
> on a silicon mac with m4 chip running Tahoe 26.5.
> > No matter the options running ../configuration, when I then command
> “Make” I keep erroring out
> > with the following error message
> >
> > *** Configuration aarch64-apple-darwin25.5.0 not supported
>
> Try one of the Mac ports by Ian Sandoe: https://github.com/iains


👆 This is the first correct answer in the thread. Apple Silicon is not
supported by upstream GCC, you need to use Iain's out-of-tree patches. Iain
is the maintainer for GCC on macOS, so those patches are expected to end up
in upstream GCC eventually, it just hasn't been done yet.




>
> His gcc-darwin-arm64 repo is currently at GCC 17.0.
>
>