[Development] Summary ABI compabilty

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Nov 23 00:07:35 CET 2016


On Tuesday 22 November 2016, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2016 19:21:40 PST Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> > * pros:
> > ** You can use Qt compiled against either libc++ or libstdc++, with
> > "the other one", without recompiling Qt.
> > 
> > * subjective cons:
> > ** apart from Qt, noone does that, why should Qt be special in that
> > regard? ** is there anyone really using this feature?
> 
> And that's why we couldn't make the decision: we don't know.
> 
> macOS seems to have settled on libc++, but now many Linux distributions are
> providing it too. The question is whether long-term people will want this
> on Linux or not (Android included).
> 
> Right now, since none of the distributions shipping libc++ are doing it
> right, you cannot use "the other one" without recompiling Qt anyway. If
> this way of building will remain, then we don't have a problem.

Can't we statically link to it, so that it doesn't matter which version the 
application is using? 


`Allan



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