Minimum requirements for gcc in order to compile c-ares?

[Brad House]

On 1/10/23 4:46 PM, Mun Johl via c-ares wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 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:
>
> In file included from ares-test.h:12:0,
>
>                  from ares-test-main.cc:4:
>
> ./gmock-1.11.0/gtest/gtest.h: In static member function 'static 
> constexpr bool testing::internal::MatcherBase<T>::IsInlined()':
>
> ./gmock-1.11.0/gtest/gtest.h:6495:12: error: 
> 'is_trivially_copy_constructible' is not a member of 'std'
>
> Based on a Google search, I infer that my gcc version is too old.  
> What are the minimum requirements to compile c-ares?
>

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.

If you're using the autotools configure script, just pass 
--disable-tests  if you're using CMake, you would pass 
-DCARES_BUILD_TESTS=OFF

-Brad
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