How to build to Android from Windows with the right C++ standard version?

Question

I am trying to build from Windows to Android with Android NDK and MinGWg-w64 (winlibs-x86_64-posix-seh-gcc-14.2.0-llvm-18.1.8-mingw-w64ucrt-12.0.0-r1) Everything goes fine until I got an error like this:

D:\Projects\ProjectFoo\src\someFile.cpp:29:11: error: no member named 'push_range' in 'std::stack<TIntermNode *>'
    stack.push_range(analyzer.getPipelineOutputs());
    ~~~~~ ^
:\Projects\ProjectFoo\src\someFile.cpp:90:23: error: no member named 'push_range' in 'std::stack<TIntermNode *>'
                stack.push_range(Nodes);
                ~~~~~ ^

I guess this is because the push_range function is only after the C++ 23 standard. I included this into my CMakeLists.txt as well as in my build script, but it seem it has been ignored. Or is there a problem with the compiler?

This is my build script:

@echo off

    call :build arm64-v8a
    if errorlevel 1 goto error
    
    exit /b 0
    
    :build
    set ANDR_ARCH=%~1
    
    set ANDR_NDK_HOME=D:\Android\ndk\26.1.10909125
    set MINGW_MAKE_PATH=D:\winlibs-x86_64-posix-seh-gcc-14.2.0-llvm-18.1.8-mingw-w64ucrt-12.0.0-r1\mingw64\bin
    
    rd /s /q %ANDR_ARCH% > nul 2>&1
    
    mkdir %ANDR_ARCH%
    cd %ANDR_ARCH%
    C:\CMake\bin\cmake.exe -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..^
        -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM="%MINGW_MAKE_PATH%\mingw32-make.exe"^
        -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="%ANDR_NDK_HOME%\build\cmake\android.toolchain.cmake"^
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release^
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Android^
        -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a^
        -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=26^
    pause
    
    if errorlevel 1 exit /b errorlevel
    C:\CMake\bin\cmake.exe --build . -j 12
    pause
    cd ..
    exit /b 0
    
    :error
    cd ..
    pause
    exit /b errorlevel

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with your MinGW compiler but your NDK version.

Android NDK 26.1 comes with a certain version of Clang and Libc++ from January 2023. Meanwhile, the commit that added std::stack::push_range was merged in June 2023.

Update your NDK to r27 or later and that specific method will be part of libc++.

EDIT: you can verify this yourself by locating the libc++ header files inside the NDK