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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Brad,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/10/23 4:46 PM, Mun Johl via c-ares wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif">I’m trying to compile c-ares on a RHEL7 server with gcc/g++ v4.8.5 . My compilation is failing with many errors, the first of which is as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif">In file included from ares-test.h:12:0,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif"> from ares-test-main.cc:4:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif">./gmock-1.11.0/gtest/gtest.h: In static member function 'static constexpr bool testing::internal::MatcherBase<T>::IsInlined()':</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif">./gmock-1.11.0/gtest/gtest.h:6495:12: error: 'is_trivially_copy_constructible' is not a member of 'std'</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif">Based on a Google search, I infer that my gcc version is too old. What are the minimum requirements to compile c-ares?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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You just need to disable the test cases. The test cases require a C++11 or higher compiler. c-ares itself will build fine with any c89 compiler.<br>
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If you're using the autotools configure script, just pass --disable-tests if you're using CMake, you would pass -DCARES_BUILD_TESTS=OFF<br>
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-Brad<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">[Mun] Thank you very much for your quick and informative response! The use of --disable-tests did the trick.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">-- <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Mun<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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