LLVM Clang 10 no longer supports -Wl,--dll

[oBFusCATed]

Regexes aren't good for this kind of checks.
We need something like https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/if.html?highlight=version_less
But I suppose it is fine if we drop older versions of clang.

[Miguel Gimenez]

EvalXMLCondition() can be easily expanded to evaluate this kind of conditions, adding p.e. "minimum" or "lessthan" verbs.

[oBFusCATed]

I know, I don't have the time to do it. If you're interested post patch, if not post a patch which drops the old version, I guess.

[killerbot]

I would drop support for old clang, by the way, most recent is clang11.

[oBFusCATed]

Yeah, this is easy, but I'm sure this feature would be useful for other places.

[Miguel Gimenez]

Ticket expanding EvalXMLCondition() published, https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/tickets/1041/

[gh_origin]

I don't have Clang.

If you're on Linux, it's easy. If if you're on Windows, you can use my Clang:

https://app.box.com/s/8i0tovgsr354brkcwumus0nzfw1heigg

And sorry everyone, it's my mistake. The Clang version I shared through out the forum is not Clang 10, it's Clang 11 indeed. So I'm not sure whether it's Clang 11 or Clang 10 that dropped supports for -Wl,--dll.

You could get Clang 10 here:

https://app.box.com/s/9gs0idab4ui031043go90s1819uonkop

[gh_origin]

But I suppose it is fine if we drop older versions of clang.

No. The oldest version of Clang I have seen still being used is Clang 7 (on Linux). I also saw Clang 3.5 still floated around on some organizations. It's not unbelievable, though. Since in my place they only tried to conform to C++11. Newer language standards are not considered. So if old compilers have complete support for C++11, it's no reason to upgrade to new compilers, which most of time caused more problems than it worth.

[gh_origin]

I would drop support for old clang, by the way, most recent is clang11.

Most Linux distributions don't ship with latest Clang. The oldest Clang I saw still in use is Clang 7 (I don't remember which distributions, but it seemed to be some kind of LTS of Debian or Ubuntu).

BTW, why no one consider my solution: two sets of XMLs, one for old Clang, one for new Clang? I have posted about that many times on this thread but no one cares.

[stahta01]

Two files is twice the effort to maintain as one file.

Tim S.

[oBFusCATed]

BTW, why no one consider my solution: two sets of XMLs, one for old Clang, one for new Clang? I have posted about that many times on this thread but no one cares.

Because they easily get out of sync, they are harder to maintain and after all we need this version checking feature anyway. I'll if I can review the Miguel's patch.

[gh_origin]

BTW, why no one consider my solution: two sets of XMLs, one for old Clang, one for new Clang? I have posted about that many times on this thread but no one cares.

Because they easily get out of sync, they are harder to maintain and after all we need this version checking feature anyway. I'll if I can review the Miguel's patch.

I understand. Thanks.