Building with Visual Studio 2013

[simonpearce]

I am building my code with Visual Studio 2013 but I know CEF is built with Visual Studio 2017 in the Spotify Automated Builds.
Is it possible for me to use their build of CEF with Visual Studio 2013?
For example, I see their builds have libcef.lib - I will not be able to link with that if mine is 2013 and theirs is 2017 will I?

[magreenblatt]

CEF is only tested with VS2017 and newer. The libs are compatible with older versions but you may need to fix syntax in the sample apps to compile with older MSVC compilers.

[simonpearce]

I see - I wanted to understand the mechanism how it is possible for libcef.lib in the CEF package that is made with 2017 or 2019 to link with my 2013 application. It seems to work but I would like to know why.

[magreenblatt]

libcef uses a C API, so there are no exported/imported standard library symbols that would cause versioning issues between VS versions. See here for more details.