how to add c++11 support to syntastic vim plugin?

Solution 1:

Turns out the C++ linter (syntax checker) of syntastic has many options that can be set on your .vimrc (unfortunate, I wish it was project specific, like the .clang_complete solution).

To enable c++11 standards and use the libc++ library with clang (which is what my project is using) I added the following lines to my ~/.vimrc

let g:syntastic_cpp_compiler = 'clang++'
let g:syntastic_cpp_compiler_options = ' -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++'

it now works beautifully.

Solution 2:

I was facing the same problem and I insist to process c++98 and c++11 separately. below is my solution:

create file named gcc.vim under bundle/syntastic/syntax_checkers/cpp11/ and copy these to it:

"============================================================================
"File:        cpp11.vim
"Description: Syntax checking plugin for syntastic.vim
"Maintainer:  Gregor Uhlenheuer <kongo2002 at gmail dot com>
"License:     This program is free software. It comes without any warranty,
"             to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute
"             it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You
"             Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar.
"             See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
"
"============================================================================

if exists('g:loaded_syntastic_cpp11_gcc_checker')
    finish
endif
let g:loaded_syntastic_cpp11_gcc_checker = 1

if !exists('g:syntastic_cpp11_compiler')
    let g:syntastic_cpp11_compiler = executable('g++') ? 'g++' : 'clang++'
endif

if !exists('g:syntastic_cpp11_compiler_options')
    let g:syntastic_cpp11_compiler_options = '-std=c++11'
endif

let s:save_cpo = &cpo
set cpo&vim

function! SyntaxCheckers_cpp11_gcc_IsAvailable() dict
    return executable(expand(g:syntastic_cpp11_compiler))
endfunction

function! SyntaxCheckers_cpp11_gcc_GetLocList() dict
    return syntastic#c#GetLocList('cpp11', 'gcc', {
        \ 'errorformat':
        \     '%-G%f:%s:,' .
        \     '%f:%l:%c: %trror: %m,' .
        \     '%f:%l:%c: %tarning: %m,' .
        \     '%f:%l:%c: %m,'.
        \     '%f:%l: %trror: %m,'.
        \     '%f:%l: %tarning: %m,'.
        \     '%f:%l: %m',
        \ 'main_flags': '-x c++ -fsyntax-only',
        \ 'header_flags': '-x c++',
        \ 'header_names': '\m\.\(h\|hpp\|hh\)$' })
endfunction

call g:SyntasticRegistry.CreateAndRegisterChecker({
    \ 'filetype': 'cpp11',
    \ 'name': 'gcc' })

let &cpo = s:save_cpo
unlet s:save_cpo

" vim: set et sts=4 sw=4:

that will make gcc checker available (want other checker? you can do the similar things i did for yourself) for files with &filetype == 'cpp11' in vim. how to make your files automatically recongnized as cpp11 filetype in vim? just create file named ext_detect.vim under ~/.vim/ftdetect/ with the following content:

au bufnewfile,bufread *.cpp11 set ft=cpp11
au bufnewfile,bufread *.cppx set ft=cpp11

by this way, you can process your *.cpp files as c++98 standard and *.cpp11 or *.cppx as c++11 standard separately, not only syntax checking, but also syntax highlighting (if you need cpp11 syntax highlighting support, this vim plugin will be useful, although not perfect).

Solution 3:

It has project specific options, like the .clang_complete solution

You can set path to files g:syntastic_cpp_config_file and g:syntastic_c_config_file. The default is .syntastic_cpp_config for C++. Put file in root of the project and compiler options inside it (one for each line)

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