ITK Release 4/Modern C++

Goal

• Take advantage of advances in C++

Path

• Target popular compilers that are compatible with the C++98 and/or C++03 standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B03#Language_standard).

Specifics

The following lists specify what compilers will be supported and what compilers will not be supported in the first release of ITKv4.

Will Not Support

Specifically remove support for

• Visual Studio 6.0
• Visual Studio 7.0
• Borland version 5.5
• Sun Studio compilers prior to 5.9
• IRIX compilers
• Metrowerks Codewarrior compilers
• cygwin 1.5 (newer versions may work, but are not being targeted)
• gcc prior to 3.4

Will Support

As a general statement, we support compilers that submit nightly to the ITK dashboard. Currently these include:

Fully Committed to Support

• GCC 4.x
• Visual Studio
  • 7.1 (Until 2012)
  • 8 (Until 2015)
  • 9 (Until 2018)
  • 10 (Until 2020)
• Intel Compiler Suite
  • 11.x
  • 12.x
• Darwin-c++-4.2
  • ppc (Until 2015)
  • x86_64
• Darwin-g++-4.0.1
• MacOSX-icc-rel
• SunOS-CC
  • amd64
  • i386
  • amd64
• Win32-mingw-gcc-4.5

Friendly to Support

• clang (beta version)