Command-line tool

distcc

brew/distcc

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Distributed compiler client and server

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install distcc

Linux

brew install distcc

Compile a source file using a compiler like `gcc`

distcc gcc -c path/to/source.c -o path/to/output.o

Set remote hosts to distribute compilation

export DISTCC_HOSTS="localhost ip1 ip2 ..."

Compile a project with `make` using `distcc`

make -j parallel_jobs CC="distcc gcc"

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