| Re: [cdt-dev] Configuring a Makefile project to use C++11 |
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Hi Andrew,
> The language dialect flag in Tool Settings enables "-std=c++98", "-std=c++0x" > or "-std=c++1y". That flag gets passed to compiler during managed build and also > gets passed to GCC Built-in Compiler Settings provider. Built-in Compiler Settings provider runs gcc with > special options and captures include paths and macro definitions for the given dialect. As far as I know > these includes and macros define whether this is C++03 or C++11 for indexer. > In order to provide these settings for makefile project it would be necessary to parse the build output with > build output parser and then trigger running of Built-in Compiler Settings provider with appropriate -std= > option. Since we support different set of includes/macros for different files and the same build could compile > files with different options it might be necessary to run Built-in Compiler Settings provider with different > options for different files. I wonder if we could do something simpler, like enabling the Tool Settings UI even for makefile projects, or adding a different piece of UI that allows the user to select the language standard for makefile projects. Regards, Nate |