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

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-20 16:19:26

Caleb Epstein wrote:
> On 5/20/05, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Seems incredible - this otherwise wonderful package omits something
>> that GCC supports out of the box on other platforms.
>
> I believe Cygwin uses gcc 3.3, and I had a similar experience with
> wide character support (or lack thereof) in gcc 3.3.x on Solaris.
> Upgrading to 3.4.x fixed things.  Perhaps you can get a gcc 3.4
> package or build the compiler from source to see if this helps.  Has
> anyone here tried this?

My current Cygwin installation uses gcc 3.4.1, and has no wide-character
support.

Jonathan