Re: [lmi] Replacing boost with std C++11

[Greg Chicares]

On 2017-04-25 14:27, Greg Chicares wrote:
[...]
> (I) Standard replacements available with C++17:
> 
>   #include <boost/filesystem/convenience.hpp>
>   #include <boost/filesystem/exception.hpp>
>   #include <boost/filesystem/fstream.hpp>
>   #include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp>
>   #include <boost/filesystem/path.hpp>
> Requires gcc-5.3 and '-lstdc++fs':
>   
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33149878/experimentalfilesystem-linker-error/33159746#33159746

I was hoping that if we upgraded to gcc-5.3, we'd be able to replace
boost::filesystem; but it looks like that's not going to work soon:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dynamic_or_shared.html#manual.intro.using.linkage.experimental
| The library implementation is incomplete on non-POSIX platforms,
| specifically Windows support is rudimentary.

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/2292
[looks like UTF-16 is a problem]

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847379
| Experimental support is not currently enabled in Debian's build of the
| mingw-w64 cross-compiler.