update supported cmake versions and add some tests with newer compilers (#972)

Update and test with some newer compilers and cmake versions

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: phlptp

.ci/azure-cmake-new.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+steps:
+  # Note that silkeh/clang does not include ca-certificates, so check the shasum for verification
+  - bash: |
+      wget --no-check-certificate "https://cmake.org/files/v3.28/cmake-3.28.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
+      echo "898f0b5ca6e2ea5286998e97bd33f030d7d09f18ca4b88be661fdfbad5dadd88  cmake-3.28.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" | shasum -sca 256
+    displayName: Download CMake
+
+  - task: ExtractFiles@1
+    inputs:
+      archiveFilePatterns: "cmake*.tar.gz"
+      destinationFolder: "cmake_program"
+      displayName: Extract CMake
+
+  - bash:
+      echo
+      "##vso[task.prependpath]$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/cmake_program/cmake-3.28.0-linux-x86_64/bin"
+    displayName: Add CMake to PATH

.clang-tidy

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # modernize-avoid-c-arrays trips up in TEMPLATE_TEST_CASE catch macro
 # modernize-return-braced-init-list triggers on lambdas ?
 # modernize-make-unique requires C++14
+# modernize-type_traits requires C++17
 # readability-avoid-const-params-in-decls Affected by the pre-compile split
 
 Checks: |
@@ -37,6 +38,8 @@ Checks: |
   -modernize-concat-nested-namespaces,
   -modernize-return-braced-init-list,
   -modernize-make-unique,
+  -modernize-type-traits,
+  -modernize-macro-to-enum,
   *performance*,
   -performance-unnecessary-value-param,
   -performance-inefficient-string-concatenation,

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
   clang-tidy:
     name: Clang-Tidy
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: silkeh/clang:14
+    container: silkeh/clang:17
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
   cuda12-build:
     name: CUDA 12 build only
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: nvidia/cuda:12.1.0-devel-ubuntu22.04
+    container: nvidia/cuda:12.3.1-devel-ubuntu22.04
     steps:
       - name: Add build tools
         run: apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget git cmake
@@ -336,9 +336,15 @@ jobs:
           args: -DCLI11_SANITIZERS=ON -DCLI11_BUILD_EXAMPLES_JSON=ON
         if: success() || failure()
 
-      - name: Check CMake 3.27 (full)
+      - name: Check CMake 3.27
         uses: ./.github/actions/quick_cmake
         with:
           cmake-version: "3.27"
+        if: success() || failure()
+        
+      - name: Check CMake 3.28 (full)
+        uses: ./.github/actions/quick_cmake
+        with:
+          cmake-version: "3.28"
           args: -DCLI11_SANITIZERS=ON -DCLI11_BUILD_EXAMPLES_JSON=ON
         if: success() || failure()

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
 # Note: this is a header only library. If you have an older CMake than 3.5,
 # just add the CLI11/include directory and that's all you need to do.
 
-# Make sure users don't get warnings on a tested (3.5 to 3.26) version
+# Make sure users don't get warnings on a tested (3.5 to 3.28) version
 # of CMake. For most of the policies, the new version is better (hence the change).
-# We don't use the 3.5...3.26 syntax because of a bug in an older MSVC's
+# We don't use the 3.5...3.28 syntax because of a bug in an older MSVC's
 # built-in and modified CMake 3.11
-if(${CMAKE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS 3.26)
+if(${CMAKE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS 3.28)
   cmake_policy(VERSION ${CMAKE_MAJOR_VERSION}.${CMAKE_MINOR_VERSION})
 else()
-  cmake_policy(VERSION 3.26)
+  cmake_policy(VERSION 3.28)
 endif()
 
 set(VERSION_REGEX "#define CLI11_VERSION[ \t]+\"(.+)\"")

azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -150,3 +150,28 @@ jobs:
       - template: .ci/azure-cmake.yml
       - template: .ci/azure-build.yml
       - template: .ci/azure-test.yml
+
+  - job: Docker_new
+    variables:
+      cli11.single: OFF
+    pool:
+      vmImage: "ubuntu-latest"
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        gcc13:
+          containerImage: gcc:13
+          cli11.std: 17
+          cli11.options: -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Wstrict-overflow=5"
+        gcc12:
+          containerImage: gcc:12
+          cli11.std: 20
+          cli11.options: -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Wredundant-decls -Wconversion"
+        clang17_20:
+          containerImage: silkeh/clang:17
+          cli11.std: 23
+          cli11.options: -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-std=c++23
+    container: $[ variables['containerImage'] ]
+    steps:
+      - template: .ci/azure-cmake-new.yml
+      - template: .ci/azure-build.yml
+      - template: .ci/azure-test.yml

book/chapters/options.md

@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ CLI::Option* opt = app.add_flag("--opt");
 CLI11_PARSE(app, argv, argc);
 
 if(* opt)
-    std::cout << "Flag received " << opt->count() << " times." << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "Flag received " << opt->count() << " times." << '\n';
 ```
 
 ## Inheritance of defaults

examples/arg_capture.cpp

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
     subcom->alias("--sub");
     CLI11_PARSE(app, argc, argv);
 
-    std::cout << "value=" << value << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "value=" << value << '\n';
     std::cout << "after Args:";
     for(const auto &aarg : subcom->remaining()) {
         std::cout << aarg << " ";
     }
-    std::cout << std::endl;
+    std::cout << '\n';
 }

examples/config_app.cpp

@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     }
 
     std::cout << "Working on file: " << file << ", direct count: " << app.count("--file")
-              << ", opt count: " << opt->count() << std::endl;
+              << ", opt count: " << opt->count() << '\n';
     std::cout << "Working on count: " << count << ", direct count: " << app.count("--count")
-              << ", opt count: " << copt->count() << std::endl;
+              << ", opt count: " << copt->count() << '\n';
     std::cout << "Received flag: " << v << " (" << flag->count() << ") times\n";
-    std::cout << "Some value: " << value << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "Some value: " << value << '\n';
 
     return 0;
 }

examples/custom_parse.cpp

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ using DoubleValues = Values<double>;
 
 // the lexical cast operator should be in the same namespace as the type for ADL to work properly
 bool lexical_cast(const std::string &input, Values<double> & /*v*/) {
-    std::cout << "called correct lexical_cast function ! val: " << input << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "called correct lexical_cast function ! val: " << input << '\n';
     return true;
 }
 

examples/digit_args.cpp

@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
     CLI11_PARSE(app, argc, argv);
 
-    std::cout << "value = " << val << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "value = " << val << '\n';
     return 0;
 }