GCC 4.8 Toolchain

[rbmj]

Hi all,

Since it appears that CD has cleaned out old topics, I'm opening a new thread so that people with issues with the GCC 4.8 toolchain can get support.

Please post any future questions regarding this project in this thread.

Features:

- GCC 4.8, with all it's awesomeness including caret diagnostics, improved error messages, better optimizations, etc.

- C++11 support. While this is a 4.8 feature, it deserves its own bullet point. Note that this is not yet enabled by default on all platforms due to some issues with updating WPILib.

- Native builds for linux, with alpha native builds for OSX and Windows (including a .msi made using WIX, so you know it's legit)

- All-around awesomeness

If you want to help out with development, please do! Read the wiki, look at the code, and post here!

A few links:

FirstForge page for the project, including wiki with a decent amount of information to get up to speed on the project:

http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/projects/c--11_toochain

Wiki page on that project page that details how to get and install. Note that, being territorial, I'm going to recommend my repos over Patricks . In all seriousness though, mine are stable for cRIO development, but Patrick's repos offer various features in different stages of development, which I'll pull in once I'm convinced they're stable.

http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/wiki/do.../BinaryInstall

Wiki page on how to build and install with FRCMake (the IMHO easiest and best way to build these projects):

http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/wiki/do...iki/UsingCMake

Link to the Windows Installer:

http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/frs/do/...tallers.alpha0

Note that once you install the windows installer, you have FRCMake et al installed automatically.

Link to the old topic to find old discussion - it's long but well worth reading if you want to learn more (second only to the wiki):

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=109385

WPILib repository (open development, unlike closed-off upstream):

https://github.com/rbmj/wpilib

All of the code/buildscripts can be found either on the team's bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/frc-cpp11

or some is still on my github page:

https://github.com/rbmj/

As always, help is appreciated. Enjoy!