Open mcandre opened 2 years ago
What does uname -a && echo "int main(){}"|xcrun clang -xc -v -
print on your macOS system?
I disagree. If somebody is bothered enough to do cross-compiling, he/she likely wants to support the widest outcome, ie the oldest macOS x version supported by the combination of sdk headers and compiler.
"If somebody is bothered enough to do cross-compiling, he/she likely wants to support the widest outcome" Some of us have to cross-compile and being restricted to older language versions is a major headache when the code base is cross-platform. The minimum supported version should be configurable.
Could osxcross default to targeting the maximum supported macOS version? I think that could more closely match the behavior of Xcode. For example, C++17 support for standard features like
std::filesystem::path
should work out of the box.I recognize that such a change would influence how backwards compatibility works. If a developer wishes to support older macOS versions, perhaps that could be implemented more explicitly, rather than relying on the compiler to default to legacy editions.