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-<sect1 id="manual.intro.setup.configure" xreflabel="Configuring">
-<?dbhtml filename="configure.html"?>
-
-<sect1info>
- <keywordset>
- <keyword>
- ISO C++
- </keyword>
- <keyword>
- configure
- </keyword>
- <keyword>
- options
- </keyword>
- </keywordset>
-</sect1info>
-
-<title>Configure</title>
-
-<para>
- When configuring libstdc++, you'll have to configure the entire
- <emphasis>gccsrcdir</emphasis> directory. Consider using the
- toplevel gcc configuration option
- <literal>--enable-languages=c++</literal>, which saves time by only
- building the C++ toolchain.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- Here are all of the configure options specific to libstdc++. Keep
- in mind that
- <!-- This SECnn should be the "Choosing Package Options" section. -->
- <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_node/autoconf_131.html#SEC131">they
- all have opposite forms as well</ulink> (enable/disable and
- with/without). The defaults are for the <emphasis>current
- development sources</emphasis>, which may be different than those
- for released versions.
-</para>
-<para>The canonical way to find out the configure options that are
- available for a given set of libstdc++ sources is to go to the
- source directory and then type:<command>./configure --help</command>.
-</para>
-
-<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-multilib</code>[default]</term>
- <listitem><para>This is part of the generic multilib support for building cross
- compilers. As such, targets like &quot;powerpc-elf&quot; will have
- libstdc++ built many different ways: &quot;-msoft-float&quot;
- and not, etc. A different libstdc++ will be built for each of
- the different multilib versions. This option is on by default.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-sjlj-exceptions</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Forces old, set-jump/long-jump exception handling model. If
- at all possible, the new, frame unwinding exception handling routines
- should be used instead, as they significantly reduce both
- runtime memory usage and executable size. This option can
- change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Specify that run-time libraries should be installed in the
- compiler-specific subdirectory (i.e.,
- <code>${libdir}/gcc-lib/${target_alias}/${gcc_version}</code>)
- instead of <code>${libdir}</code>. This option is useful if you
- intend to use several versions of gcc in parallel. In addition,
- libstdc++'s include files will be installed in
- <code>${libdir}/gcc-lib/${target_alias}/${gcc_version}/include/g++</code>,
- unless you also specify
- <literal>--with-gxx-include-dir=<filename class="directory">dirname</filename></literal> during configuration.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--with-gxx-include-dir=&lt;include-files dir&gt;</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Adds support for named libstdc++ include directory. For instance,
- the following puts all the libstdc++ headers into a directory
- called &quot;2.97-20001008&quot; instead of the usual
- &quot;c++/(version)&quot;.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- --with-gxx-include-dir=/foo/H-x86-gcc-3-c-gxx-inc/include/2.97-20001008</programlisting> </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-cstdio</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This is an abbreviated form of <code>'--enable-cstdio=stdio'</code>
- (described next). This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-cstdio=OPTION</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Select a target-specific I/O package. At the moment, the only
- choice is to use 'stdio', a generic &quot;C&quot; abstraction.
- The default is 'stdio'.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-clocale</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This is an abbreviated form of <code>'--enable-clocale=generic'</code>
- (described next). This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-clocale=OPTION</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Select a target-specific underlying locale package. The
- choices are 'ieee_1003.1-2001' to specify an X/Open, Standard Unix
- (IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001) model based on langinfo/iconv/catgets,
- 'gnu' to specify a model based on functionality from the GNU C
- library (langinfo/iconv/gettext) (from <ulink url="http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/">glibc</ulink>, the GNU C
- library), or 'generic' to use a generic &quot;C&quot;
- abstraction which consists of &quot;C&quot; locale info.
- </para>
-
- <para>As part of the configuration process, the "C" library is
- probed both for sufficient vintage, and installed locale
- data. If either of these elements are not present, the C++
- locale model default to 'generic.' On glibc-based systems of
- version 2.2.5 and above with installed locale files, 'gnu' is
- automatically selected.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-libstdcxx-allocator</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This is an abbreviated form of
- <code>'--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=auto'</code> (described
- next). This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=OPTION </code></term>
- <listitem><para>Select a target-specific underlying std::allocator. The
- choices are 'new' to specify a wrapper for new, 'malloc' to
- specify a wrapper for malloc, 'mt' for a fixed power of two allocator,
- 'pool' for the SGI pooled allocator or 'bitmap' for a bitmap allocator.
- This option can change the library ABI. See this page for more information on allocator
- <link linkend="allocator.ext">extensions</link>
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-cheaders=OPTION</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This allows the user to define the approach taken for C header
- compatibility with C++. Options are c, c_std, and c_global.
- These correspond to the source directory's include/c,
- include/c_std, and include/c_global, and may also include
- include/c_compatibility. The default is c_global.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-threads</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This is an abbreviated form of <code>'--enable-threads=yes'</code>
- (described next). This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-threads=OPTION</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Select a threading library. A full description is given in the
- general <ulink url="http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html">compiler
- configuration instructions</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-libstdcxx-debug</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Build separate debug libraries in addition to what is normally built.
- By default, the debug libraries are compiled with
- <code> CXXFLAGS='-g3 -O0 -fno-inline'</code>
- , are installed in <code>${libdir}/debug</code>, and have the
- same names and versioning information as the non-debug
- libraries. This option is off by default.
- </para>
- <para>Note this make command, executed in
- the build directory, will do much the same thing, without the
- configuration difference and without building everything twice:
- <code>make CXXFLAGS='-g3 -O0 -fno-inline' all</code>
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-libstdcxx-debug-flags=FLAGS</code></term>
-
- <listitem><para>This option is only valid when <code> --enable-debug </code>
- is also specified, and applies to the debug builds only. With
- this option, you can pass a specific string of flags to the
- compiler to use when building the debug versions of libstdc++.
- FLAGS is a quoted string of options, like
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- --enable-libstdcxx-debug-flags='-g3 -O1 -fno-inline'</programlisting>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-cxx-flags=FLAGS</code></term>
- <listitem><para>With this option, you can pass a string of -f (functionality)
- flags to the compiler to use when building libstdc++. This
- option can change the library ABI. FLAGS is a quoted string of
- options, like
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- --enable-cxx-flags='-fvtable-gc -fomit-frame-pointer -ansi'</programlisting>
- <para>
- Note that the flags don't necessarily have to all be -f flags,
- as shown, but usually those are the ones that will make sense
- for experimentation and configure-time overriding.
- </para>
- <para>The advantage of --enable-cxx-flags over setting CXXFLAGS in
- the 'make' environment is that, if files are automatically
- rebuilt, the same flags will be used when compiling those files
- as well, so that everything matches.
- </para>
- <para>Fun flags to try might include combinations of
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- -fstrict-aliasing
- -fno-exceptions
- -ffunction-sections
- -fvtable-gc</programlisting>
- <para>and opposite forms (-fno-) of the same. Tell us (the libstdc++
- mailing list) if you discover more!
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-c99</code></term>
- <listitem><para>The &quot;long long&quot; type was introduced in C99, along
- with many other functions for wide characters, and math
- classification macros, etc. If enabled, all C99 functions not
- specified by the C++ standard will be put into <code>namespace
- __gnu_cxx</code>, and then all these names will
- be injected into namespace std, so that C99 functions can be
- used &quot;as if&quot; they were in the C++ standard (as they
- will eventually be in some future revision of the standard,
- without a doubt). By default, C99 support is on, assuming the
- configure probes find all the necessary functions and bits
- necessary. This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-wchar_t</code>[default]</term>
- <listitem><para>Template specializations for the &quot;wchar_t&quot; type are
- required for wide character conversion support. Disabling
- wide character specializations may be expedient for initial
- porting efforts, but builds only a subset of what is required by
- ISO, and is not recommended. By default, this option is on.
- This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-long-long </code></term>
- <listitem><para>The &quot;long long&quot; type was introduced in C99. It is
- provided as a GNU extension to C++98 in g++. This flag builds
- support for &quot;long long&quot; into the library (specialized
- templates and the like for iostreams). This option is on by default:
- if enabled, users will have to either use the new-style &quot;C&quot;
- headers by default (i.e., &lt;cmath&gt; not &lt;math.h&gt;)
- or add appropriate compile-time flags to all compile lines to
- allow &quot;C&quot; visibility of this feature (on GNU/Linux,
- the flag is -D_ISOC99_SOURCE, which is added automatically via
- CPLUSPLUS_CPP_SPEC's addition of _GNU_SOURCE).
- This option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-fully-dynamic-string</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This option enables a special version of basic_string avoiding
- the optimization that allocates empty objects in static memory.
- Mostly useful together with shared memory allocators, see PR
- libstdc++/16612 for details.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-concept-checks</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This turns on additional compile-time checks for instantiated
- library templates, in the form of specialized templates,
- <link linkend="manual.diagnostics.concept_checking">described here</link>. They
- can help users discover when they break the rules of the STL, before
- their programs run.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-symvers[=style]</code></term>
-
- <listitem><para>In 3.1 and later, tries to turn on symbol versioning in the
- shared library (if a shared library has been
- requested). Values for 'style' that are currently supported
- are 'gnu', 'gnu-versioned-namespace', 'darwin', and
- 'darwin-export'. Both gnu- options require that a recent
- version of the GNU linker be in use. Both darwin options are
- equivalent. With no style given, the configure script will try
- to guess correct defaults for the host system, probe to see if
- additional requirements are necessary and present for
- activation, and if so, will turn symbol versioning on. This
- option can change the library ABI.
- </para>
-
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-visibility</code></term>
- <listitem><para> In 4.2 and later, enables or disables visibility attributes.
- If enabled (as by default), and the compiler seems capable of
- passing the simple sanity checks thrown at it, adjusts items
- in namespace std, namespace std::tr1, and namespace __gnu_cxx
- so that -fvisibility options work.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-libstdcxx-pch</code></term>
- <listitem><para>In 3.4 and later, tries to turn on the generation of
- stdc++.h.gch, a pre-compiled file including all the standard
- C++ includes. If enabled (as by default), and the compiler
- seems capable of passing the simple sanity checks thrown at
- it, try to build stdc++.h.gch as part of the make process.
- In addition, this generated file is used later on (by appending <code>
- --include bits/stdc++.h </code> to CXXFLAGS) when running the
- testsuite.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--disable-hosted-libstdcxx</code></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- By default, a complete <emphasis>hosted</emphasis> C++ library is
- built. The C++ Standard also describes a
- <emphasis>freestanding</emphasis> environment, in which only a
- minimal set of headers are provided. This option builds such an
- environment.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-clock-gettime</code></term>
- <listitem><para>This is an abbreviated form of
- <code>'--enable-clock-gettime=yes'</code>(described next).
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><code>--enable-libstdcxx-time=OPTION</code></term>
- <listitem><para>Enables link-type checks for the availability of the
- clock_gettime clocks, used in the implementation of [time.clock],
- and of the nanosleep and sched_yield functions, used in the
- implementation of [thread.thread.this] of the current C++0x draft.
- The choice OPTION=yes checks for the availability of the facilities
- in libc and libposix4. In case of need the latter is also linked
- to libstdc++ as part of the build process. OPTION=rt also searches
- (and, in case, links) librt. Note that the latter is not always
- desirable because, in glibc, for example, in turn it triggers the
- linking of libpthread too, which activates locking, a large overhead
- for single-thread programs. OPTION=no skips the tests completely.
- The default is OPTION=no.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</sect1>