Forwarded from kde-solaris. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: KDE, The Standard C++ Library, Boost and Apache Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:18:59 -0400 From: Stefan Teleman <[email protected]> Reply-To: Stefan Teleman <stefan.teleman at gmail.com> Organization: KDE e.V.
The Studio 12 default libCstd.so is not 100% compliant with the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard, and has trouble building Boost. Boost can be built with libCstd.so, but it requires numerous patches, fixes and hacks. KDE4 requires Boost [http://www.boost.org/]. RogueWave has released its implementation of the Standard C++ Library + STL under an Open Source License. This has become a project at Apache: http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/. <QUOTE> The goal of the Apache C++ Standard Library project is to provide a free implementation of the ISO/IEC 14882 international standard for C++ that enables source code portability and consistent behavior of programs across all major hardware implementations, operating systems, and compilers, open source and commercial alike. </QUOTE> The Apache/RogueWave Standard C++ Library builds smoothly with Sun Studio 12, in both 32- and 64- bit. Replacing the original Sun Studio 12 libCstd.so with the Apache/RogueWave Standard C++ Library is a fairly straightforward operation, and is documented in detail here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5267/6n7c46dsk?l=en&a=view&q=Replacing+Standard+C%2B%2B+Library Barring some unforeseen problems in building and testing Boost 1.33.1 with the Apache/RogueWave STL over the next few days, i am proposing using the Apache/RogueWave Standard C++ Library for KDE Solaris. A permanent side-effect of this library change is that linking against Sun's libCstd.so *and* the Apache/RogueWave Standard C++ Library is no longer permitted. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
