[3.0] Clang (3.8) Build fails on Ubuntu 15.04

[DanielBelow]

Using clang3.8 on Ubuntu 15.04 a clean build fails with the following error:

In file included from [...]/cocos2d-x/cocos/base/allocator/CCAllocatorGlobal.h:31:
[...]/cocos2d-x/cocos/base/allocator/CCAllocatorStrategyDefault.h:45:16: error: use of undeclared identifier 'malloc'
return malloc(size);
^
[...]/cocos2d-x/cocos/base/allocator/CCAllocatorStrategyDefault.h:51:13: error: use of undeclared identifier 'free'
free(address);
^
2 errors generated.

I did install all dependencies and updated submodules.

Including cstdlib in the CCAllocatorStrategyDefault.h file did fix the problem for me.

[zilongshanren]

@Tehlyria
The minimal GCC version is 4.9, please give it a try.

[DanielBelow]

@zilongshanren

gcc -v
-- gcc version 4.9.2 (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13)

I'm building with clang though.
clang -v
-- clang version 3.8.0 (trunk 242676)

[zilongshanren]

@Tehlyria
Clang is not tested on the Linux platform. So you should switch to GCC.

[man2]

I too have problem with clang on linux. I think it should be supported, because the compile time is so much faster with clang compared to gcc

[pandamicro]

Hi, @man2 Linux is not our focusing platform, so we can't spend too much time on it, we have a small group size and we must focus on what is important for most of our users. So I'm sorry we can't improve it recently, I'm closing it.