Intel compilers use the GNU tools on the clusters: header files, libraries, and linker.
This is called the Intel and GNU compatibility and interoperability.
Use the Intel compiler option -v to see the gcc version that is currently specified.
Most users will not have to change this..
As explained above, the Microsoft C/C++ compiler is part of the Windows SDK and is natively included within your Visual Studio installation.
More precisely, the default path where you'll find the compiler is C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\VC\\bin .
The compiler is cl.exe ..
Type “gcc –version” in command prompt to check whether C compiler is installed in your machine.
Type “g++ –version” in command prompt to check whether C++ compiler is installed in your machine.
But, we are good if C compiler is installed successfully in our machine as of now..
Checking the C++ Compiler Version
Windows: Open the command prompt and type cl.exe .
The output will show the Microsoft C++ compiler version.
Ubuntu: As mentioned earlier, use g++ --version to check the compiler version.
Mac: Open a terminal and type clang++ --version ..
The compiler version numbers give you a relative idea of how likely they are to be compatible with each other.
The closer the numbers, the closer to exact compatibility.Jan 6, 2011.
In Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017, the C++ toolset major number is 14 (v140 for Visual Studio 2015 and v141 for Visual Studio 2017)..
Intel compilers use the GNU tools on the clusters: header files, libraries, and linker.
This is called the Intel and GNU compatibility and interoperability.
Use the Intel compiler option -v to see the gcc version that is currently specified.
Most users will not have to change this..
If you install gcc and g++ the compiler should be in the MinGW installation dir under C:\\MinGW\\bin (default).
There you find a gcc.exe and g++.exe ..
I.e. if you open a VS2010 project in a newer version without upgrading the project this macro doesn't reflect the compiler being used - only the IDE version.
I'm in the process of compilinf libFLAC together with some other libraries.
They require compilation to be done using toolset v100.
__has_feature and __has_builtin are the recommended way of checking for optional compiler features when using clang, they are documented here.
Note that you can find a list of the builtin compiler macros for gcc, llvm-gcc, and clang using:.
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 17.00.50727.1 for x86 ...
Sorry, but why don't Microsoft make this information easy to find? this post is very useful but shouldn't be required.
It appear that this macro doesn't reflect the compiler version used by the project.
The version number above of course refers to the major version of your Visual studio you see in the about box, not to the year in the name.
A thorough list can be found here.
Starting recently, Visual Studio will start updating its ranges monotonically, meaning you should check ranges, rather than exact compiler values.
