Old g++ in Rtools
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Rguy <rguy at 123mail.org> wrote:
I recently downloaded Rtools. I see the g++ version is gcc version 4.6.3 20111208 (prerelease) (GCC) I also recently downloaded MinGW. Its version of g++ is gcc version 4.8.1 (GCC) I believe that later versions of g++ provide better support for C++11. Why does Rtools provide a version considerably older than the latest? Any plans to update the version? Is it bad practice to compile with a later version when interfacing with R?
Later versions of gcc/g++ also support openmp which 4.6.3 does not. There may be other C/C++ packages too that can't be used until with Rtools until it is upgraded to a more recent version. By the way, there is a MinGW 4.8.2 distribution (slightly more recent than the one you downloaded) here: http://nuwen.net/mingw.html
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