WxWidgets 2.8.7 Borland fails compiling stc library

[Chris Elliott]

On 15 Feb 2008, at 18:36, M Nealon wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Chris Elliott <biol75 at york.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
> Hi, I've been reading this thread, and sorry to be busy and not  
> replied.
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> Vadim worked hard to try and fix this error, but this is where you
> need 5.8 (or 5.5.1)
> chris
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> So are you saying that 5.5.1 is better than 5.6.4?

No, there was a problem with the 5.6.x include files supplied by  
Borland, which was not present in 5.5. i think Vadim argued we should  
keep support for 5.5.1 because it was a free, relatively small and  
easy download,

It has a very poor debugger. I'd say only use 5.8

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> I can understand that 5.8 would be better, but 5.5.1?
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> Are these two problems related? (STC component in 2.8.7 and SVN head  
> base libraries?)

the 2.8.7 problem is related to the STL - (IIRC) Borland changed their  
provider between 5.5 and 5.6 and 5.6 and 5.8

The head problems are mostly related to the use of templates

> And (assuming you are the Borland Boffin) would I be correct in my  
> assumption that the libraries I compile with TurboExplorer  
> (installing at the moment) could still be used with BCB6?
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No, i would expect them to be incompatible; the headers are different  
and the linker ...
(My thoughts on the linkers after 5.4 are not for the public record. I  
don't think codegear have even looked at the bug report since last  
April http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=44402 though a Borland  
engineer had assigned work on it in 2004 ! http://lists.wxwidgets.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?5:mss:41447:jbffaknojdoipcecohce

chris


> Best regards
> Mal
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