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| 13 | <td width="85%"> <font size="6" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Portability</b></font></td> |
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| 26 | <p>Historically, Spirit supported a lot of compilers, including (to some extent) |
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| 27 | poorly conforming compilers such as VC6. Spirit v1.6.x will be the last release |
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| 28 | that will support older poorly conforming compilers. Starting from Spirit v1.8.0, |
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| 29 | ill conforming compilers will not be supported. If you are still using one of |
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| 30 | these older compilers, you can still use Spirit v1.6.x.</p> |
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| 31 | <p>The reason why Spirit v1.6.x worked on old non-conforming compilers is that |
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| 32 | the authors laboriously took the trouble of searching for workarounds to make |
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| 33 | these compilers happy. The process takes a lot of time and energy, especially |
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| 34 | when one encounters the dreaded ICE or "Internal Compiler Error". |
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| 35 | Sometimes searching for a single workaround takes days or even weeks. Sometimes, |
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| 36 | there are no known workarounds. This stifles progress a lot. And, as the library |
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| 37 | gets more progressive and takes on more advanced C++ techniques, the difficulty |
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| 38 | is escalated to even new heights.</p> |
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| 39 | <p>Spirit v1.6.x will still be supported. Maintenance will still happen and bug |
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| 40 | fixes will still be applied. There will still be active development for the |
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| 41 | back-porting of new features introduced in Spirit v1.8.0 (and Spirit 1.9.0) |
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| 42 | to lesser able compilers; hopefully, fueled by contributions from the community. |
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| 43 | We welcome active support from the C++ community, especially those with special |
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| 44 | expertise on compilers such as older Borland and MSVC++ compilers.</p> |
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| 45 | <p>Spirit 1.8 has been tested to compile and run properly on these compilers:</p> |
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| 47 | <li>g++ 3.1 and above</li> |
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| 48 | <li>Comeau 4.24.5 </li> |
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| 49 | <li>MSVC 7.1</li> |
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| 50 | <li>Intel 7.1</li> |
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| 51 | </ol> |
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| 52 | <p>If your compiler is sufficiently conforming, chances are, you can compile Spirit |
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| 53 | as it is or with minimal portability fixes here and there. Please inform us |
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| 54 | if your compiler is known to be ISO/ANSI conforming and is not in this list |
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| 55 | above. Feel free to post feedback to <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spirit-general">Spirit-general |
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| 56 | mailing list</a> [Spirit-general@lists.sourceforge.net].</p> |
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| 67 | <p class="copyright">Copyright © 1998-2003 Joel de Guzman<br> |
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| 68 | <br> |
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| 69 | <font size="2">Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software |
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| 70 | License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at |
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| 71 | http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)</font></p> |
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