I suggest using the optoin cmake have for choosing the standard, see: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/prop_tgt/CXX_STANDARD.html
And the developer can also set as a cmake option, for example: -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=11 2016-01-14 21:24 GMT+01:00 Jon Neal <[email protected]>: > I understand people not wanting to even switch to C++11 as it is still > relatively new. I just wanted to point out that a standard should be put in > CMakeLists.txt. > > For now (until at least the next Ubuntu LTS comes out in April since that > seems to be the slowest updating OS to support) maybe set the C++98 as the > default, and have a compiler flag for enabling C++11? Rather than ignoring > C++11 entirely we could at least make sure that we don't have any errors > that would make switching at a later time more difficult. > > I'd be happy to provide/set up the build on jenkins. > > Jon > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:54 PM Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> For what it's worth... >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/cxx0x_status.html >> >> As of GCC 4.8.1, C++11 is pretty much fully supported. They use the term >> "experimental", but they do list everything and say "yes" to almost >> everything. Is there some compatibility issue I'm missing here? It looks >> to me like we can build C++11 on /all/ our supported platforms now. >> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:35:36AM +0000, Jon Neal wrote: >> > Just read this the other day and figured it would be good to discuss >> > before >> > it happens. >> > >> > GCC is going to be defaulting to C++14 for compiler flags when GCC 6 is >> > released in ~6 months. I browsed the CMakeLists.txt in the root >> > directory >> > and didn't see anything about setting a standard. Nowish would be a good >> > time to pick a C++ standard and put it in there. >> > >> > I know Wayne has mentioned in the recent past the wish to not switch to >> > C++11 yet[1] which I understand. FWIW when the next Ubuntu LTS is >> > released >> > in 3 months the gcc provided will have C++11 out of experimental. Just >> > food >> > for thought. >> > >> > Jon >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
