cmake: Add build-time dependency to Boost 1.56

[quassel.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 03abd3e..2d5d58d 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -23,20 +23,20 @@ Prerequisites
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 Of course, for building Quassel you need the usual set of build tools, for
-example a compiler. As we use a subset of the C++11 standard, we require a
-fairly recent compiler:
+example a compiler. The codebase uses the C++14 standard, so a reasonably recent
+compiler is needed:
 
-- gcc 4.8+ (available for most platforms), or
-- Clang 3.3+ (available for most platforms), or
-- XCode 5.0+ (available for Max OS X and based on Clang), or
-- Visual C++ 2015 (available for Windows™), or
-- any other compiler with decent C++11 support
+- GCC 5.0+ (available for most platforms), or
+- Clang 3.4+ (available for most platforms), or
+- XCode 6.0+ (available for Max OS X and based on Clang), or
+- MSVC 19+ (part of Visual Studio 2017 on Windows™)
 
-Furthermore, CMake 3.5 or later is required.
+Other compilers may work, but are not officially supported.
 
 As Quassel is a Qt application, you need the Qt SDK, version 5.5 or higher.
-
-There are several optional dependencies; we will talk about that later.
+Furthermore, the Boost header-only libraries (at least version 1.56) and
+CMake 3.5 or later are required. CMake will tell you about any missing
+dependencies when configuring the project.
 
 Compiling Quassel - short version
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