diff -up a/src/common/appbase.cpp.abicheck b/src/common/appbase.cpp
--- a/src/common/appbase.cpp.abicheck	2015-03-12 17:15:18.000000000 +0100
+++ b/src/common/appbase.cpp	2015-03-12 17:15:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -850,10 +850,7 @@ bool wxAppConsole::CheckBuildOptions(con
         msg.Printf(_T("Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected.\nThe library used %s,\nand %s used %s."),
                    lib.c_str(), progName.c_str(), prog.c_str());

-        wxLogFatalError(msg.c_str());
-
-        // normally wxLogFatalError doesn't return
-        return false;
+        wxLogWarning(msg.c_str());
     }
 #undef wxCMP