Re: [boost] VC7 and wchar_t in Boost

From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-21 05:27:46

> I may have missed a discussion here but there is a problem creating any
> exported interfaces for VC7 using wchar_t. The problem involves the fact
> that VC7 actually supports two different types for wchar_t, the previous
> typedefed type and the C++ standard native type. The end user chooses
which
> type he wants to use by either specifying the /Zc:wchar_t compiler switch,
> or its appropriate equivalent in the IDE, or not.

Basically this is one of many compiler switches that cause link
incompatibility, others may cause binary incompatibility, sorry I know it's
a mess, but blame the compiler writers...

John Maddock
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