Any good current cross-platform reference for UNIX compiler/linker options?

Question

I have used this summary reference for years but it is beginning to show its age. If you have any you might suggest as more current I would greatly appreciate it.

Answer 1

Some resources that leap to mind:

• GCC manuals : Manuals for GCC at various versions.

• GNU binutils : Where the real documentation for ld lives.

• Predef project : C/C++ predefined macros for many platforms, targets, and compilers.

• GNU make : Sometimes you really do want to know what $< was intended to mean...

In my experience, you won't find a lot of detail about the cross platform issues at any one of those places, though. I've soaked up a lot of it over the years, but haven't tried to codify that knowledge in any useful form.

I would imagine that any of the cross-platform build tools have to include a fair amount of that kind of knowledge, even if it is tied up in their sources or in their developer/internals documentation. You could try delving into CMake , for instance, which tries to know how to create Makefiles for *nix platforms as well as Visual Studio projects at various rev levels for Windows platforms.

Answer 2

Why don't you create a community wiki entry on SO where you create the table of options.

You could start by extracting the (still up to date) information from your link and then let the users of SO that know other compilers expand it to cover more and more.?