[Bf-committers] Using C++11 features in Blender source code?

[Mitchell Stokes]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Manuel,
> I need to re-visit your post to read it more through, but interesting
> initiative. For some of your projects you may want to drop on irc
> #bgecoders (or even #blendercoders) channel to bounce ideas before getting
> down to code. Mainly to smooth out future merges.
>
> Now to your topic:
> Could you elaborate on the downsides of using C++11? (backward
> incompatibility? Lack of compilers? )
> And the problems of mixing it up with the existent C++ code.
>
> Also BGE shouldn't have C code. As far as I can think of, the only part in
> C are the dependencies coming from Blender or code for the embedded BGE.
>
> Cheers,
> Dalai
> On Mar 27, 2013 7:52 AM, "Manuel Bellersen" <bellersenm at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey there!
> >
> > I just got in contact with coding Blender, especially the internal game
> > engine.
> > (Here is my personal branch https://bitbucket.org/Urfoex/blender/
> > and a little write-up:
> >
> http://urfoex.blogspot.com/2013/03/bge-qt5-coding-blender-game-engine.html
> )
> >
> > I like to code using the new features of C++11.
> > But currently Blender isn't using C++11 anywhere.
> > (I think it is kind of funny because it uses Python 3.3 that came out
> > 29.09.2012
> > but doesn't use C++11 which showed up already a year earlier on
> > 12.08.2011.)
> >
> > So the question is:
> > Can I contribute code written using C++11 features?
> > Or am I forced to do the C & C++ mix I found (and fear)?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Manuel Bellersen
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The problem is compiler support. Our official Windows compiler is MSVC 2008
(VC9), which only has limited C++11 support via an optional extension pack.
Can you list off which C++11 features you specifically want to use?

--Mitchell