Supported Compilers

This page has been updated to reflect GDAL 2.3 (dev; trunk at r41082)

GDAL head requires C++11, which limits which compilers are supported.

wiki:rfc68_cplusplus11

This is list of supported ​compilers:

Compiler	Vendor	Notes
​GCC	GNU	>= 4.8.1 Including GCC from ​Cygwin
​https://clang.llvm.org/		>= 3.3
​Microsoft Visual C++	Microsoft	All versions >= 14.0

Should work with 32-bit and 64-bit builds.

Tested Environments

Recent SunPro and Intel compilers may work too.

See CI runs:

• ​https://travis-ci.org/OSGeo/gdal/builds
• ​https://ci.appveyor.com/project/OSGeo/gdal/history

Please, add your environment if it's not listed below yet and you've built GDAL with it successfully.

Operating System	Architecture	Compiler version	Notes
GNU/Linux	x86-64	GCC 4.8.4 Trusty
Mac OS X 10.12.6	x86-32bit	Which clang? Reports llvm 9.0.0
Microsoft Windows	x86	Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 MSVC_VER=1800 AppVeyor
Microsoft Windows	x64	Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 MSVC_VER=1900 AppVeyor
Microsoft Windows	x86	Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 15.0 MSVC_VER=1910
Microsoft Windows	x64	Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 15.0 MSVC_VER=1910
Microsoft Windows	x86	Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 15.3 MSVC_VER=1911
Microsoft Windows	x64	Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 15.3 MSVC_VER=1911
Microsoft Windows	x86	Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 15.5 MSVC_VER=1913
Microsoft Windows	x64	Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 15.5 MSVC_VER=1913
...	...	...	...

Note, the list may actually include compilers listed below as unsupported, but it does not change a compiler support status.

Unsupported Compilers

Anything that can't do C++11 is definitely unsupported.

This is list of officially not supported compilers:

Compiler	Vendor	Notes
MSVC older than 2013	Microsoft
MinGW32
GCC from ​MinGW	GNU	It has been done, but some fiddling required
​Borland C++ Builder	​CodeGear (Borland)
​Turbo C++	Borland
​Open Watcom C/C++	Sybase