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

Question

I am using syntastic in my c++11 project. When I am editing in vim, and save (:w) the syntastic plugin gives me errors on every initializer list {} and for each loops which are clearly c++11 features that it's missing.

I installed syntastic using pathogen.

Here are two examples of the error I am getting on initializer lists and for each loops (both c++11 that compile fine):

Answer 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.

Answer 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).