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| <p>Historically, Spirit supported a lot of compilers, including (to some extent) |
| poorly conforming compilers such as VC6. Spirit v1.6.x will be the last release |
| that will support older poorly conforming compilers. Starting from Spirit v1.8.0, |
| ill conforming compilers will not be supported. If you are still using one of |
| these older compilers, you can still use Spirit v1.6.x.</p> |
| <p>The reason why Spirit v1.6.x worked on old non-conforming compilers is that |
| the authors laboriously took the trouble of searching for workarounds to make |
| these compilers happy. The process takes a lot of time and energy, especially |
| when one encounters the dreaded ICE or "Internal Compiler Error". |
| Sometimes searching for a single workaround takes days or even weeks. Sometimes, |
| there are no known workarounds. This stifles progress a lot. And, as the library |
| gets more progressive and takes on more advanced C++ techniques, the difficulty |
| is escalated to even new heights.</p> |
| <p>Spirit v1.6.x will still be supported. Maintenance will still happen and bug |
| fixes will still be applied. There will still be active development for the |
| back-porting of new features introduced in Spirit v1.8.0 (and Spirit 1.9.0) |
| to lesser able compilers; hopefully, fueled by contributions from the community. |
| We welcome active support from the C++ community, especially those with special |
| expertise on compilers such as older Borland and MSVC++ compilers.</p> |
| <p>Spirit 1.8 has been tested to compile and run properly on these compilers:</p> |
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| <li>g++ 3.1 and above</li> |
| <li>Comeau 4.24.5 </li> |
| <li>MSVC 7.1</li> |
| <li>Intel 7.1</li> |
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| <p>If your compiler is sufficiently conforming, chances are, you can compile Spirit |
| as it is or with minimal portability fixes here and there. Please inform us |
| if your compiler is known to be ISO/ANSI conforming and is not in this list |
| above. Feel free to post feedback to <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spirit-general">Spirit-general |
| mailing list</a> [Spirit-general@lists.sourceforge.net].</p> |
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| <p class="copyright">Copyright © 1998-2003 Joel de Guzman<br> |
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