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Comment by hornetblack | Hacker News Reader

Hard coded compiler version?

    Could not find compiler set in environment variable CC:

    gcc-4.8.

I'm running gcc-4.9. I got it working by doing:

    ln -s /usr/bin/gcc ~/bin/gcc-4.8
    ln -s /usr/bin/g++ ~/bin/g++-4.8

I'm not saying this is good practice, but it works.

Also need to make sure python means python2.

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Thanks for noting these issues. I've made a note about Python 2.x in the readme (https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/commit/ae7e3de61c...). As far as the compiler, g++-4.9 is fine to use. If you hit an error with it could you share the details in an issue? https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/issues

I had to change: #!/usr/bin/env python to: #!/usr/bin/env python2

in the python scripts to get it working under archlinux. If this works on the other platforms, that might be a good change.

From looking at the build code, you should be able to just set CC=gcc-4.9 and CXX=g++-4.9 in your environment.

This is a pretty standard practice and the reason that it's set to "gcc-4.8" rather than "gcc" by default is because it requires real C++11 support in order to compile.

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