On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 10:43, Makarius <makarius at sketis.net> wrote:
On 19/05/2019 17:46, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
If I understand the version numbering correctly, those MinGW versions
are derived from GCC 4.9.3 which supports C++11.
Such claims of supporting certain standards are rarely accurate. It usually takes years to make things really work. See also this reply on the old thread: http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/pipermail/polyml/2017-December/002139.html
Agreed, but you can get a pretty accurate record from https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx11 which shows everything relevant was completed before 4.9. In practice, I have not experienced anything that makes me doubt this table.
I am all for bumping up that old MinGW build environment, but it is up to David Matthews to do something about it, or leave the status-quo unchanged.
Makarius