March 20, 2026
7:35 a.m.
Then why do we use the C compiler by default? It only adds a requirement on it having heuristics and ability to detect and switch to C++ mode. This requires sources to have specific extensions, which is not something we can enforce in third party projects anyway, and they all explicitly check and use the C++ compiler to build their C++ sources. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10399#note_133006