Talk
How we were upgrading compiler and supporting cross-platform software
For a long time, for our codebase containing 2M lines of code and depending on 80 third-party libraries (including MFC) we had been using С++11 in Visual Studio 2013 (only for Windows). Now we're using С++17 in Visual Studio 2017 (for Windows) and GCC 7.3 (for Linux). We'll tell how we solved different challenges that appeared during this transition:
- Proving to our senior officials that this transition is worth it
- Using the Conan package manager for third-party libraries assembly
- VS2017 interaction with CMake and Linux
- Achieving build reproducibility with the constant updates of VS2017
- Fixing incompatibilities in code that came with update to С++17
Speakers
Alexander Voronkov
Company: Align Technology Inc.