[gdal-dev] C++11 timeline

[Jeff McKenna]

MS4W builds are moving to VS2015, because PHP 7's requirement for that 
compiler, but stable releases are done now with VS2012.  (I've 
officially moved away from the old VS2008)

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
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On 2017-01-05 1:26 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
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>> What is the list of compilers that GDAL actively and accidentally
> supports?
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> Currently, at least:
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> GCC >= 4.4 (actually must be 4.1 since this is what ancient mingw uses)
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> clang >= 3.something (3.0 probably)
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> VS >= 2008
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> ICC 15 probably
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> One aspect is to also consider the various analyzers used. I think
> cppcheck has only partial C++11 support. I'd guess Coverity Scan should
> have decent C++11 support but this is just a guess. CLang Static
> Analyzer should likely work just fine with the C++11 supported by the
> underlying clang compiler
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>> How will that be impacted by a C++11 requirement?
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> GCC 4.8 is needed for C++11 I think. There are folks using recent GDAL
> on older distros like Ubuntu 12.04 (which ships with gcc 4.6). I guess
> they could switch to adding a PPA with a more recent toolchain.
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> For Visual Studio depends on the features we use. Would be good to have
> VS2013 or even 2012. I'm CC'ing Jürgen Fischer to know if he has plans
> regarding of the compiler version that will be used for OSGeo4W / QGIS 3.0
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> Even
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