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
• 7.1 (Until 2012)
• 8 SP 1 (Until 2015)
• 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
• Darwin ppc (Until 2015)

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
  • 9 (Until 2018)
  • 10 (Until 2020)
  • 11 (Until 2022)
  • 12 (Until 2023)
  • 13 (Until 2025)
• Intel Compiler Suite
  • 11.x
  • 12.x
• MacOSX-icc-rel
• Win32-mingw-gcc-4.5
• Apple clang-600.0.56
• Clang 3.3 and later

The following table illustrate the phase-out schedule of multiple compilers.

The stage "If community supported" means that ITK will only support that compiler if volunteers from the community commit to submitting Nightly Dashboard builds and to address/fix any problem that may arise in those platforms.

Compiler	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
["VisualStudio 7.1"]
Visual Studio 8
Visual Studio 9
Visual Studio 10
GCC 3.4
GCC 4.2
GCC 4.4
GCC 4.9

Legend

Fully Supported

Phase Out

If community supported