Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm and MSVC 2003

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

Robin Neatherway wrote:

> Thanks for the clear-up there, but what exactly is the ABI?

"Application Binary Interface" ... which is a catchall for all of the 
minute details that have to be right before one binary (e.g. an 
application) can be linked to another binary (e.g. a library).  The ABI 
of a library compiled with mingw will not be compatible with the ABI of 
an application compiled with MSVC, which will cause errors at link time.

Achieving ABI compatibility between C++ compilers is much more difficult 
than between C compilers, due to language features such as overloading.

Cheers,
Tim