[Development] Platform / compiler support

[João Abecasis]

Dr Craig Scott wrote:
> On 08/11/2011, at 1:31 AM, João Abecasis wrote:
>> At the bare minimum, I think we should strive to support these compilers:
>> 
>>   - GCC 4.2 and up
>>   - MSVC 2008 and later
>>   - Clang (trunk)
>> 
>> On the page above I also put in a list of platforms, splitting them between Desktop, Embedded and Mobile. The latter two categories only have a placeholder row, while for Desktop I put in the following platform-compiler mappings:
>> 
>>   - Linux: gcc 4.4 (Debian stable)
>>   - Microsoft Windows 7: MSVC 2008
>>   - Mac OS X Lion: gcc 4.2, clang 2.9
> 
> I would strongly suggest that the LSB makes an appearance somewhere in the supported platform/compiler listing. To my knowledge, it is the only truly cross-distribution standard that exists for Linux.

Does the LSB specify a compiler?

Cheers,


João