[boost] Re: std::wstring support in GCC/Cygwin?

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-19 17:43:27

Beman Dawes wrote:
> What is the story on std::wstring support with GCC/Cygwin? How do you
> turn
> it on?
>
> I'm trying to test the Boost.Filesystem i18n branch with more
> compilers. It is working fine with last model Intel, Metrowerks, and
> Microsoft on Windows, and GCC on the Mac, but no luck with GCC/Cygwin.

I believe std::codecvt is not supported on that platform. I've marked the
Iostreams library wide stream and code conversion tests as expected failures
with MinGW and Cygwin. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

Jonathan