Requirements.md

Requirements

Operating System Support

• We support:
  • Windows➚.
  • macOS➚.
  • Linux➚.
• Other systems might work.

Compiler Support

• We support:
  • Visual Studio➚ version 2022 or newer.
  • Xcode➚ version 15 or newer.
  • GCC➚ version 13 or newer.
  • Clang➚ version 16 or newer.
• Other compilers might work.

Language Requirements

• We require C++20➚ or newer.
• We require exception support. The -fno-exceptions option is not supported.
• We require RTTI support. The -fno-rtti option is not supported.

Compiler Options/Warnings

• We support Clang's -fms-extensions➚ option.
• We support the /W4 option on Visual Studio➚.
• We support the -pedantic, -Wall, and -Wextra options on GCC➚ and Clang➚.

☝️ Note that we support these options, we don't require them to be used. You can decide which options you want to use in your project, we just try to not get in the way by making sure that our code doesn't generate any of those warnings.

Database Requirements

• We expect the database to use UTF-8 encoding.
• We expect the database to send BYTEA data in bytea hex format➚.
• We expect the database connection to use protocol version 3➚.

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