27.11.2018, 01:54, "André Pönitz" <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:32:11PM -0600, [email protected] wrote: >> All, >> >> I went to the wiki here: https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_Creator_from_Git >> and creator will not build on 14.04 though 5.9.7 does. Ubuntu 14.04 is still >> LTS until 04/2019, has QtCreator already left it behind? > > Dear Mr President, > > I went to the source code here: > http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/README.md > and it says > > ## Compiling Qt Creator > * Qt 5.9.0 or later > [...] > * On Linux: g++ 5.3 or later > > So what you found is true, but only part of the truth. std::enable_if_t > is C++11, and that's officially required to build Qt Creator since 2014. > gcc 4.8.4 was good enough until 2017, i.e. has been given a grace period > of more than two years. > > Even if the version requirement for gcc weren't documented please note > that the relation 'can-be-build-with' is not transitive. > > "Creator version X can be build with Qt version Y" and "Qt version Y can be > build on OS version Z" does not imply "Creator version X can be build > out-of-the-box on OS version Z". > > Please note also that "not out-of-the-box" does not necessarily mean it > cannot be done. Asking Google for "ubuntu 14.04 gcc" gives as third hit > https://gist.github.com/application2000/73fd6f4bf1be6600a2cf9f56315a2d91, > apparently giving instructions to get a gcc 6.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.
Also there is no trouble in installing gcc 7 or clang on Ubuntu 14.04. > >> -- >> Roland Hughes, President >> Logikal Solutions >> (630) 205-1593 > > Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
