New version of the RosBE build environment (ReactOS Build Environment)

The developers of the ReactOS operating system, which aims to provide compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers, published new build environment release RosBE 2.2 (ReactOS Build Environment), including a set of compilers and tools that can be used to build ReactOS on Linux, Windows, and macOS. The release is notable for updating the GCC compiler set to version 8.4.0 (for the last 7 years, GCC 4.7.2 has been offered for assembly). It is expected that the use of a more modern version of GCC, due to a significant increase in diagnostics and code analysis tools, will make it easier to identify errors in the ReactOS codebase and allow you to switch to using new features of the C ++ language in your code.

The build environment also includes packages for creating parsers and lexical analyzers Bison 3.5.4 and Flex 2.6.4. Previously, the ReactOS code shipped parsers already generated with Bison and Flex, but now they can be created at build time. Updated versions of Binutils 2.34, CMake 3.17.1 with patches ReactOS, Mingw-w64 6.0.0 and Ninja 1.10.0. Despite the removal of support for older editions of Windows in newer versions of some utilities, RosBE has managed to maintain compatibility with Windows XP.

Source: opennet.ru