October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Blog Staff | Dec 22, 2012 04:27 PM | Tags: None
Chris Lattner has announced the release of version 3.2 of the Clang C++ compiler, as part of LLVM 3.2. Read the release notes here.
Highlights include:
_Alignof supportBy Blog Staff | Dec 12, 2012 02:07 PM | Tags: None
On Monday in their webcast talk following the Bjarne Stroustrup interview, Embarcadero announced C++Builder XE3 -- a highly-conforming Clang-based C++11 compiler that enables targeting Windows, OS X, and soon iOS and Android from a single modern C++11 code base, including leveraging the latest platform features such as Windows 8's WinRT and OS X Mountain Lion's Retina display support.
From the product announcement:
C++Builder XE3 delivers the best of both worlds – a highly-compliant C++11 64-bit Windows toolchain with an agile development solution. Now you can use the latest C++ features and libraries while you speed your development process with C++Builder’s visual development environment.
With C++Builder XE3, developers can use Embarcadero C++ standard extensions to provide an agile coding experience with rapid prototyping and reusable software components, and a fully integrated two-way visual development environment so you can deliver your applications to market faster.
- New 64-bit Windows compiler based on a multi-device targeting architecture
- C++98, C++TR1, and C++11 language standards
- ANSI C, ISO C, C99, and C11 language standards
- Dinkumware STL 5.3 and Boost 1.5
- CLANG compatible
- Agile C++ language extensions
- Cross-compilation to multiple Windows and Mac OS X platforms (iOS and Android coming in 2013)
By Blog Staff | Dec 12, 2012 11:41 AM | Tags: None
Last month's Qt DeveloperDays Europe videos are now available, including this one showing continued rapid adoption of C++11.
Using C++11 to Speed Up Your Qt 5 Programs (PDF slides)
Marc Mutz
Qt 5 comes with much-improved support for C++11. This talk will teach you techniques that you can use to make your applications use less memory or execute faster when compiled with a C++11 compiler. The focus is on techniques that will not break compatibility with C++98 compilers. After a look at the present state of C++11 support in Qt 5.0, the talk closes with a look at what we can expect in Qt 5.1.
From the summary slide "C++11 @ QT 5.0":
constexpradded to many types- move semantics added to a few types
initializer_listadded to most types- new few N-ary ctors marked
explicit, N >= 2= deleteused almost ubiquitouslynoexceptadded in a few central places
By Blog Staff | Dec 4, 2012 05:17 PM | Tags: None
HT to Michael Larabel and Phoronix: It's great to see more projects moving to adopt modern C++11, from C++98/03 and even from C. Here are three fairly well-known projects in the "thinking about" stage of taking the plunge.
More Open-Source Projects Eyeing Up C++11
by Michael Larabel
KDE developers are currently contemplating the idea of allowing a subset of the C++11 language to be used within the KDevelop code-base. This C++11 change would happen for the KDevelop 4.6 integrated development environment release. Reasons are shared in this article for why one should consider using C++11 code.
[...]
Qt 5.0 is taking advantage of C++11 too, but there it's being handled in a backwards compatible manner so the code will still build as C++03 on older compilers. There is also more Qt C++11 developer information shared via slides from the recent Qt Developer Days event.
By Blog Staff | Nov 30, 2012 12:21 PM | Tags: None
Release 2012.1 of Applied Informatics C++ Libraries and Tools is now available.
These libraries extend the POCO C++ Libraries with additional features, including:
New in release 2012.1 are:
A free evaluation version is available for download.
By Blog Staff | Nov 15, 2012 04:40 PM | Tags: None
Reactive Extensions (Rx) is now open source and supports LINQ styles in C++.
From the announcement, Rx is already being used for a number of highly responsive applications including GitHub for Windows:
According to Paul Betts at GitHub, "GitHub for Windows uses the Reactive Extensions for almost everything it does, including network requests, UI events, managing child processes (git.exe). Using Rx and ReactiveUI, we've written a fast, nearly 100% asynchronous, responsive application, while still having 100% deterministic, reliable unit tests. The desktop developers at GitHub loved Rx so much, that the Mac team created their own version of Rx and ReactiveUI, called ReactiveCocoa, and are now using it on the Mac to obtain similar benefits."
In addition to Rx's original support for .NET and new support for Javascript, Rx has also added support for C++:
Rx++: The Reactive Extensions for Native (RxC) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators in both C and C++.
Ix++: An implementation of LINQ for Native Developers in C++.
Where to download or find out more: https://rx.codeplex.com/
By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2012 02:25 PM | Tags: None
The CGAL Open Source Project is pleased to announce the release 4.1 of CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.
Besides fixes to existing packages, the following has changed since CGAL 4.0:
See http://www.cgal.org/releases.html for a complete list of changes.
The CGAL project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, easy-to-use, and efficient C++ software library of geometric data structures and algorithms, like
Some modules are distributed under the terms of the LGPL Open Source license (GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later versions). Most modules are distributed under the terms of the GPL Open Source license (GNU General Public License v3 or later versions). If your intended usage does not meet the criteria of the aforementioned licenses, a commercial license can be purchased from GeometryFactory.
For further information and for downloading the library and its documentation, please visit the CGAL web site.
By Blog Staff | Nov 6, 2012 02:00 PM | Tags: None
just::thread 1.8.2 is now available.
Anthony Williams' implementation of the C++11 threading library adds support for gcc 4.7.2, and consequently official support for Ubuntu Quantal and Fedora 17.
just::thread is now available for the following compilers:
By Blog Staff | Nov 5, 2012 08:11 PM | Tags: None
Release 1.52.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available.
These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.
Releases 1.51.0 and 1.52.0 contain one new library (Boost.Context, by Oliver Kowalke) and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries.
Here are some useful links for 1.52.0.
decltype and result_of is described in this special release note.Many thanks to the Boost release team:
Beman Dawes
Daniel James
Eric Niebler
Marshall Clow
Rene Rivera
Vladimir Prus
We very much appreciate their continued hard work.
By Blog Staff | Oct 15, 2012 10:09 PM | Tags: None
Development release 1.5.0 of POCO is now available. See the changelog or download here.
Major new features include:
Please note that this is a development release and not considered stable. Interfaces may change, backwards compatibility may be broken, not all platforms may work and there may be some rough edges.