Checking for the exact match of __GXX_ABI_VERSION created more problems (including for both Fedora and Debian packagers, see https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/pull/828) than it solved (approximately 0), so relax it and assume that future g++ versions will remain broadly compatible with the current ABI, which seems like a safe assumption so far. It's not really clear if there is any value in having this ABI check at all, or if we should remove CheckBuildOptions() and all the code calling it entirely, as it seems that there is no way to trigger this check during run-time without getting a link error first. But keep it for now, just because it's simpler to keep it than to remove it.
About
wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at http://docs.wxwidgets.org/
Platforms
wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
- Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (32/64 bits).
- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
- OS X (10.7 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits).
Most popular C++ compilers are supported including but not limited to:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 or later (up to 2017).
- g++ 3.4 or later, including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
- Clang under OS X and Linux.
- Intel icc compiler.
- Oracle (ex-Sun) aCC.
Licence
wxWidgets licence is a modified version of LGPL explicitly allowing not distributing the sources of an application using the library even in the case of static linking.
Building
For building the library, please see platform-specific documentation under
docs/<port>
directory.
If you're building the sources checked out from Git, and not from a released versions, please see these additional Git-specific notes.
Further information
If you are looking for support, you can get it from
- Mailing Lists
- Discussion Forums
- #wxwidgets IRC channel
- Stack Overflow
(tag your questions with
wxwidgets
) - Please report bugs at https://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
We would also gladly welcome your contributions.
Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team.