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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-21 04:55:43

> 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?

It's not going to help: the cygwin dll has no (or at least extremely 
limited) C language wide character support.  Without that there's nothing 
for libstdc++ to build on.  In contrast Solaris did have C language support 
for wide characters, it's just that libstdc++ wasn't taking advantage of it 
until 3.4.

John.