Using gtkmm with Visual C++ and _SECURE_SCL=0

[Thomas Frank <thomas frank axon-mv com>]

Hallo.

I'm trying to introduce gtkmm (also) on windows as GUI to my non-GUI 
libraries. As many other users of Visual C++ I need to #define 
_SECURE_SCL=0 for the Release-versions of my libraries and any 
application that uses them, to ensure a satisfying performance of the 
STL-containers.

It turns out that "_SECURE_SCL=0" is incompatible with gtkmm from the 
windows installer-package. All the release-versions of the libraries 
here are compiled with the default (and slow) "_SECURE_SCL=1". This 
would be no problem at all, if no public interfaces would instantiate or 
exchange any STL-containers. But a sigc::signal for example, uses 
std::list to store slots connected to signals and returns a 
list::iterator with the connect()-function. This produces linker errors 
when calling signal::connect() and compiling and linking an application 
with "#define _SECURE_SCL=0" against gtkmm.

Has anybody ever ran into the same kind of problem(s) and found a 
workaround other than recompiling gtkmm and all its dependant 
C++-libraries?

I would like to enjoy the comfort and reliability of the installers both 
for development and deployment. Using "_SECURE_SCL=1" with my own 
source-code is definitely not an option, due to the absolutely 
disappointing performance of the STL-containers in this mode.

I searched for _SECURE_SCL in the archives but didn't get any results. 
Has this ever been a topic?


thanks in advance and regards
Thomas