Deps: Update minimum version requirements of Boost to 1.83.0 for non-windows builds and of GCC and Clang to 13.3 and 18.1.3, respectively.

Fixes infinite recursion on `boost::rational` comparison affecting compiler binaries built with GCC<14.0 and Boost<1.75.

Author: clonker

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ parameters:
   emscripten-docker-image:
     type: string
     # NOTE: Please remember to update the `scripts/build_emscripten.sh` whenever the hash of this image changes.
-    # solbuildpackpusher/solidity-buildpack-deps:emscripten-20
-    default: "solbuildpackpusher/solidity-buildpack-deps@sha256:98f963ed799a0d206ef8e7b5475f847e0dea53b7fdea9618bbc6106a62730bd2"
+    # solbuildpackpusher/solidity-buildpack-deps:emscripten-21
+    default: "solbuildpackpusher/solidity-buildpack-deps@sha256:fc53d68a4680ffa7d5f70164e13a903478964f15bcc07434d74833a05f4fbc19"
   evm-version:
     type: string
     default: prague

Changelog.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 * Yul Optimizer: Fix edge case in which invalid Yul code is produced by ExpressionSimplifier due to expressions being substituted that contain out-of-scope variables.
 
 Build System:
-* Update to boost 1.70.0 for non-windows builds.
+* Update minimum version requirements of Boost to 1.83.0 for non-windows builds and of GCC and Clang to 13.3 and 18.1.3, respectively. Fixes infinite recursion on `boost::rational` comparison affecting compiler binaries built with GCC<14.0 and Boost<1.75.
 
 ### 0.8.30 (2025-05-07)
 

cmake/EthDependencies.cmake

@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ else()
 	# Boost 1.67 moved container_hash into is own module.
 	# Boost 1.69 boost::system is header-only and no longer needs to be fetched as component
 	# Boost 1.70 comes with its own BoostConfig.cmake and is the new (non-deprecated) behavior
-	find_package(Boost 1.70.0 QUIET REQUIRED COMPONENTS ${BOOST_COMPONENTS})
+	# Boost 1.75 fixes infinite recursion on `boost::rational` comparison with GCC<14.0 under C++20
+	# Boost 1.83 is the version that comes with Ubuntu 24.04.
+	find_package(Boost 1.83.0 QUIET REQUIRED COMPONENTS ${BOOST_COMPONENTS})
 endif()
 
 # If cmake is older than boost and boost is older than 1.70,

docs/installing-solidity.rst

@@ -320,14 +320,16 @@ Prerequisites - All Operating Systems
 
 The following are dependencies for all builds of Solidity:
 
+.. Note: This has to be kept in sync with `scripts/ci/install_and_check_minimum_requirements.sh`.
+
 +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
 | Software                          | Notes                                                 |
 +===================================+=======================================================+
 | `CMake`_ (version 3.21.3+ on      | Cross-platform build file generator.                  |
 | Windows, 3.13+ otherwise)         |                                                       |
 +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
 | `Boost`_ (version 1.77+ on        | C++ libraries.                                        |
-| Windows, 1.70+ otherwise)         |                                                       |
+| Windows, 1.83+ otherwise)         |                                                       |
 +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
 | `Git`_                            | Command-line tool for retrieving source code.         |
 +-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -372,8 +374,10 @@ Minimum Compiler Versions
 
 The following C++ compilers and their minimum versions can build the Solidity codebase:
 
-- `GCC <https://gcc.gnu.org>`_, version 11+
-- `Clang <https://clang.llvm.org/>`_, version 14+
+.. Note: Minimum versions for GCC and Clang are based on availability in Ubuntu 24.04.
+
+- `GCC <https://gcc.gnu.org>`_, version 13.3+
+- `Clang <https://clang.llvm.org/>`_, version 18.1.3+
 - `MSVC <https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/>`_, version 2019+
 
 Prerequisites - macOS

scripts/ci/install_and_check_minimum_requirements.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
+# These versions must be kept in sync with the docs in `docs/installing-solidity.rst#building-from-source`.
+
 # minimum boost version
 BOOST_VERSION=1.83