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| author |  Abseil Team <absl-team@google.com> | 2020-12-22 06:25:57 -0800 |
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| committer |  Derek Mauro <dmauro@google.com> | 2020-12-22 10:42:56 -0500 |
| commit | 4611a601a7ce8d5aad169417092e3d5027aa8403 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b1b4d2c97f495d974fd6d0deb74c0b2a26c4798 /README.md | |
| parent | 8a9ef3c5da2a9064dda0ac3c61b43b87c12c50b8 (diff) | |
Export of internal Abseil changes
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be02479c8f5ddf18f0d711e86648a2a0a9823fb6 by Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff@google.com>:
Suppress MSVC warning about unused return value
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10e6da15e34d84d314fc1eca1bcdeb96538a04d1 by Derek Mauro <dmauro@google.com>:
Add additional information to README.md
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57283e13d221d9a3f6678a1c6db1a41b4421b938 by Jorg Brown <jorg@google.com>:
Tweaks for better AArch64 support under MSVC
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48cb64ed90c71db6342dcf478a03bbb419b98500 by Christian Blichmann <cblichmann@google.com>:
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@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ standard library. - [About Abseil](#about) - [Quickstart](#quickstart) - [Building Abseil](#build) +- [Support](#support) - [Codemap](#codemap) +- [Releases](#releases) - [License](#license) - [Links](#links) @@ -42,14 +44,22 @@ the Abseil code, running tests, and getting a simple binary working. <a name="build"></a> ## Building Abseil -[Bazel](https://bazel.build) is the official build system for Abseil, -which is supported on most major platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, for example) -and compilers. See the [quickstart](https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/quickstart) for -more information on building Abseil using the Bazel build system. +[Bazel](https://bazel.build) and [CMake](https://cmake.org/) are the official +build systems for Abseil. -<a name="cmake"></a> -If you require CMake support, please check the -[CMake build instructions](CMake/README.md). +See the [quickstart](https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/quickstart) for more information +on building Abseil using the Bazel build system. + +If you require CMake support, please check the [CMake build +instructions](CMake/README.md) and [CMake +Quickstart](https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/quickstart-cmake). + +## Support + +Abseil is officially supported on many platforms. See the [Abseil +platform support +guide](https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/platforms/platforms) for details on +supported operating systems, compilers, CPUs, etc. ## Codemap @@ -100,6 +110,15 @@ Abseil contains the following C++ library components: * [`utility`](absl/utility/) <br /> The `utility` library contains utility and helper code. +## Releases + +Abseil recommends users "live-at-head" (update to the latest commit from the +master branch as often as possible). However, we realize this philosophy doesn't +work for every project, so we also provide [Long Term Support +Releases](https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/releases) to which we backport +fixes for severe bugs. See our [release +management](https://abseil.io/about/releases) document for more details. + ## License The Abseil C++ library is licensed under the terms of the Apache |