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interrupt

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Registered: 2018-04-08

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[SOLVED] C++20 - including the format header that ships with llvm14?

I'm a newbie to C++, but I'd like to use the new <format> header from C++20.

The documentation says it's now supported since clang14.

So installed clang, llvm, llvm-libs, libc++ and libc++abi.

And I tried:

#include <iostream>
#include <format>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
	vector<double> v {1.23, 45.42, 0.441, 1342.8, 61.5, 32.1};

	for (const auto & n : v)
		cout << format("{:>7}\n", n);
	
	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Alas it says:

$ clang++ -Wall -std=c++2a -o main main.cpp 
main.cpp:2:10: fatal error: 'format' file not found
#include <format>
         ^~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

What am I missing here?

Last edited by interrupt (2022-07-05 08:38:28)

foutrelis

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Re: [SOLVED] C++20 - including the format header that ships with llvm14?

You would have to pass "-stdlib=libc++" to clang++ otherwise it uses GCC's libstdc++ and not LLVM's libc++. You'd also need to rebuild libc++ with "-DLIBCXX_ENABLE_INCOMPLETE_FEATURES=ON" (for an explanation see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/71778011).

interrupt

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Re: [SOLVED] C++20 - including the format header that ships with llvm14?

Okay, I see - thanks for the info.
Guess it's safer to still use fmt instead until the implementation is complete.