Today I released v1.2.0 of ghc::filesystem , my implementation of C++17 std::filesystem for C++11, C++14 and C++17.

This release added MinGW 32/64 and Visual Studio 2015 builds to the CI configuration and brought new optional features, like a standard conforming wchar_t/std::wstring interface on Windows and optional unicode errors, along with a set of bug fixes.

The full list of changes in v1.2.0:

• Added MingW 32/64 and Visual Studio 2015 builds to the CI configuration.
• Fixed additional compilation issues on MingW.
• Pull request (#13 ), set minimum required CMake version to 3.7.2 (as in Debian 8).
• Pull request (#14 ), added support for a make install target.
• Bugfix for (#15 ), the forward/impl way of using ghc::filesystem missed a <vector> include in the windows case.
• Bugfix for (#16 ), VS2019 didn’t like the old size dispatching in the utf8 decoder, so it was changed to a sfinae based approach.
• New feature (#17 ), optional support for standard conforming wchar_t/std::wstring interface when compiling on Windows with defined GHC_WIN_WSTRING_STRING_TYPE, this is default when using the ghc/fs_std*.hpp header, to enhance compatibility.
• New feature (#18 ), optional filesystem exceptions/errors on unicode errors with defined GHC_RAISE_UNICODE_ERRORS (instead of replacing invalid code points or UTF-8 encoding errors with the replacement character U+FFFD).
• Pull request (#20 ), fix for file handle leak in fs::copy_file.
• Coverage now checked in CI (~95% line coverage ).

I want to thank all contributors for their support!