[wx-dev] Re[4]: ABI and wxErlang

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

Greetings,

Why do you bother continuing supporting 2.8 anyhow? I doubt there is a lot
of existing applications using wxErlang, as it's relatively new, so why not
just only support 3.0?

or even trunk.

But there's another problem with ABI. I'd like to ask whether there
*could* be ABI backward incompatibility between latest official release
and latest trunk built from fresh SVN/GitHub. I guess the answer is most
probably or even definitely yes, but I'd like to be sure.

PS: Vadim, you were speaking in the list like a one half year ago or
sooner, whether someone has idea of ABI compatibility checker. I'd like
to have suitable one, ideally FOSS. How you ended up?

TIA!,
vdm
.

[Bryan Petty]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy

Post by Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy
PS: Vadim, you were speaking in the list like a one half year ago or
sooner, whether someone has idea of ABI compatibility checker. I'd like
to have suitable one, ideally FOSS. How you ended up?

There's one under lib that just compares results from nm between libs:
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/lib/abicheck.sh

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

Bryan,

Post by Bryan Petty
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy

Post by Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy
PS: Vadim, you were speaking in the list like a one half year ago or
sooner, whether someone has idea of ABI compatibility checker. I'd like
to have suitable one, ideally FOSS. How you ended up?

https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/lib/abicheck.sh

That looks promising, but I see in the code strings like "*.so".

I am interested only on Windows(R) libraries, so I guess this script is
not suitable for me :-/, or am I missing something?

TIA,
vdm
.

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

Greetings Bryan,

Post by Bryan Petty
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy

Post by Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy
PS: Vadim, you were speaking in the list like a one half year ago or
sooner, whether someone has idea of ABI compatibility checker. I'd like
to have suitable one, ideally FOSS. How you ended up?

https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/lib/abicheck.sh

My primary development is under MSVC, and I have fork of WX on github.
Is there such ABI checker that is working for MSVC's *.dll's ?

TIA!
best,
vdm
.

[Bryan Petty]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy

Post by Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy
My primary development is under MSVC, and I have fork of WX on github.
Is there such ABI checker that is working for MSVC's *.dll's ?

Not that I'm aware of, but taking the same approach, you'd likely use
the DUMPBIN utility to check for differences in DLL exports:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177429