Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk-- issue

[Peter Norton <spacey inch com>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 02:38:35PM -0500, Snoopdave wrote:
> After installing egcs 1.0.1 I was finally able to get
> gtk-- to build. I'm impressed; it looks like gtk development
> will be much easier with gtk. 
> 
> I've got two questions:
> 
> - Does gtk-- really require egcs? I was not able to 
> build with gcc-2.7.2, but I did see comments in gtk--.h
> that indicated it should work.

Probably.  That or gcc-2.8.x (just released :).  There are some
fundamental parts of the c++ spec that gcc < 2.8/egcs just can't do.
 
> - If egcs is required, just out of curiosity, can somebody 
> please tell me what things are missing from gcc-2.7.2 that 
> make egcs necessary?

Templates... and...  What else?  Anyone?  I don't use c++ so this is all I
know of.

Check out http://www.cygnus.com/egcs and browse the mailing lists to get a
more complete list. The essential features in egcs are probably in
gcc-2.8.x

-Peter