GCC 5 support

[dschnabel]

I'm using libsnowboy-detect.a in my project. In order to make the linker happy I need to run my linker command with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 or it will not work. This option instructs the linker to use the the old ABI (see here for more info).

If I don't use other third party libraries, this would be fine. However, I also need to link against additional libraries that require the new ABI and won't work in combination with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0.

Can you provide libraries that are compatible with the new ABI (GCC >= 5.1) please?

Edit:
I see there's already a discussion and workaround under Kitt-AI#99

[chenguoguo]

Could you add that to the Makefile so that it can handle both GCC >= 5.1 and GCC < 5.1?

[dschnabel]

I actually had better success applying the wrapper provided in Kitt-AI#99 (comment).

I guess you could make that wrapper part of the source code and modify the Makefile so that it will use the wrapper script when compiling with GCC >= 5.1. I'm not very familiar with Makefile development, so I'll leave the implementation to somebody who has better expertise.

[Thalhammer]

Hi @dschnabel

You can use https://github.com/Thalhammer/snowman and compile it for your os/cpu arch. It should be compatible with the original snowboy models and can be compiled for any os/arch you like (we even have webassembly support).