Re: [boost] [offtopic] cygwin and wchar

Subject: Re: [boost] [offtopic] cygwin and wchar
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-03 21:06:19

Eric Niebler wrote:
> I see that the cygwin toolset now expects wchar support, and I've
> heard that cygwin does indeed support wchar now, but I don't know
> what I need to do to get it. Simply running the cygwin installer and
> letting it update everything doesn't seem to do the trick. Help?

Hmmm - that's all I did and it worked fine.  I did notice one
thing though - it seemed to leave some older version of gcc
and libraries on there.  Double check that the older ones
aren't being invoked with gcc -v

Robert Ramey