Re: [boost] Boost Filesystem v3 - requires wstring - an obstacle to testing the serialization library

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost Filesystem v3 - requires wstring - an obstacle to testing the serialization library
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-11-17 14:25:25

On 11/17/16 10:52 AM, Edward Diener wrote:

> Why do you think mingw/gcc on Windows does not support std::wstring ? I
> would be very surprised if that were the case unless you were testing a
> very, very old version of mingw/gcc.

When I look at the test matrix at 
http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/serialization.html 
all the gcc-mngw versions are failing.  I checked the first one which 
happened to be gcc 3.4 and that was the message.  I mistakenly assumed 
that all the failures were due to the same issue. So I see you're right 
here.

So the library is failing to build for all mngw platforms. 
Unfortunately, the test matrix truncates the error messages due to a 
large number of warnings on that plaform before any actual error message 
is displayed.  This makes it impossible to make the library work on this 
plaform. This an ongoing problem which I've complained before - alas 
without getting anyone to take action.

Robert Ramey