[Qgis-developer] Cross heap contamination with OSGEO4W64

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Stuart,

On Wed, 30. Dec 2015 at 07:43:13 -0700, Stuart Brittain wrote:
> I have tried VS 2008, VS 2013, and VS 2010. Only Release mode in VS 2010
> will run without crash.
> Debug mode in VS 2010 will also crash, and the application cannot be
> debugged.

Use RelWithDebInfo in VS 2010 if you want to debug.

> I am not exactly sure why the issue occurs in release versions other than
> those built with VS 2010, we can probably blame MS for that ;)

Yes, the C++ ABI of different VC compilers is incompatible.  So when using C++
APIs (like QGIS and Qt) you're tied to using the same compiler version.
 

Jürgen

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