[Interest] QtCreator minimum Ubuntu version for build?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

27.11.2018, 01:54, "André Pönitz" <apoenitz at t-online.de>:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:32:11PM -0600, roland at logikalsolutions.com 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.

>
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Konstantin