Hi Alan,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:44 PM
>
> Yes, you are certainly correct to be concerned about that issue; I assume the
> same
> ABI incompatibility issues occur on the MSVC side of things as occur on the
> g++
> side of things. But the MSVC ABI changes might not occur so often as they do
> for
> g++ so your wxwidgets distribution might still be ABI compatible with the
> version of
> the MSVC compiler you are using. So it is "try it and see" with MSVC.
>
I originally only found the source distribution for wxWidgets, but it seems
that a binary distribution is available on
www.wxwidgets.org<http://www.wxwidgets.org> for a range of MSVC compiler
versions (2008-2017). I plan to use the 3.0.3 release from that site.
> Actually I am quite impressed with wxwidgets popping an error box concerning
> ABI
> incompatibility (at least for the g++ case but hopefully for the MSVC case as
> well).
> Most software projects typically have lower standards then that and simply
> make no
> effort to detect ABI incompatibility issues so the user has to discover for
> themselves such problems via run-time issues such as segfaults.
>
> I am now looking forward to your -fabi-version=8 wxwidgets results for
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 as well as your wxwidgets results for MSVC.
>
Hopefully I will know more tonight.
Regards,
Arjen
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