New version of the RosBE (ReactOS Build Environment)

The developers of the ReactOS operating system, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers, have published have released a new version of the build environment RosBE 2.2 (ReactOS Build Environment), which includes a set of compilers and tools that can be used to build ReactOS on Linux, Windows, and macOS. This release is notable for updating the GCC compiler collection to version 8.4.0 (for the last 7 years, GCC 4.7.2 was used for builds). It is expected that using a more modern version of GCC will significantly enhance diagnostics and code analysis tools, making it easier to identify bugs in the ReactOS codebase and allowing the use of new C++ language features in the code.

The build environment also includes packages for creating parsers and lexical analyzers: Bison 3.5.4 and Flex 2.6.4. Previously, pre-generated parsers created with Bison and Flex were included in the ReactOS code, but now they can be generated during the build process. The versions of Binutils 2.34 and CMake 3.17.1 have been updated with patches for ReactOS, Mingw-w64 6.0.0, and Ninja 1.10.0. Despite the discontinuation of support for older versions of Windows in new releases of some utilities, RosBE has managed to maintain compatibility with Windows XP.

Source: opennet.ru