Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan,



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> 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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