Re: [boost] which Operating Systems should be supported?

Subject: Re: [boost] which Operating Systems should be supported?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-18 20:52:05

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, vicente.botet
<vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno Lalande" <bruno.lalande_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [boost] which Operating Systems should be supported?
>
>
>>
>>> It's gcc version that matter, 4.2 or 4.3 are most relevant these days.
>>
>> Note that Cygwin users usually greatly appreciate compatibility with
>> gcc 3.4 (which it's not always possible of course).
>
> You can install gcc 4.3.2 on cygwin. I have installed it with the cygwin installer and it works well.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't see it at first, because it is
treated as a separate package named gcc4-g++ instead of gcc-g++, and
so is further down in the package list.

--Beman