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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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