Re: Minimum GCC version

Ah, I see that in the release mail for 5.5.7, Neil actually states GCC 
9 or Clang 9.

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Robin Haberkorn wrote:

> Dear fellow Scintilla developers,
>
> what's the current minimum supported GCC and Clang version?
> After upgrading to v5.5.7 (or rather HEAD), I noticed that charconv is used, 
> which appears to require at least GCC 8.1 [1], although I can't really 
> confirm that.
>
> At v5.5.4 I was assuming that the minimum version is GCC 5.0. But the oldest 
> I was building with was probably GCC 7.x. That was on NetBSD 10, for which 
> you will soon receive another patch. Actually I upgraded Scintilla, so I can 
> provide you with a patch that cleanly applies to HEAD. It would be tragic if 
> that broke my NetBSD port again. Although I could just require a newer GCC 
> from pkgsrc, I suppose.
> I had v5.5.4 building on Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA even. Can't find which gcc this 
> had.
> The upgrade also broke openSUSE 15.5-15.6. But again, perhaps I can pull in a 
> newer non-default GCC as a build dependency.
>
> Best regards,
> Robin
>
> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/64104715
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