Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #8618: Link Error :

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #8618: Link Error :
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-10-30 17:14:52

#8618: Link Error :
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  Reporter:  Sudhir            |      Owner:  bemandawes
      Type:  Bugs              |     Status:  closed
 Milestone:  To Be Determined  |  Component:  filesystem
   Version:  Boost 1.53.0      |   Severity:  Regression
Resolution:  invalid           |   Keywords:  Link Error
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Comment (by smueller@…):

 Replying to [comment:6 bemandawes]:
 > I'm closing this as "Invalid" since it really isn't a coherent bug
 report.
 >
 > A valid bug report would identify the compiler name and version,
 platform, build command, and supply a sample program that exhibits the
 problem.
 Just FYI: Modern versions of Visual Studio (I'm using VS2012) assume a
 default of the built-in wchar_t type when so many libraries (such as Qt)
 compile with -wchar_t-. It's just one of those gotchas.
 An easy case to reproduce is make a very small Qt project in Visual Studio
 and perform a boost::filesystem operation that involves std::string. The
 link will fail because it expects a wchar_t type to exist, and it does
 not.
 It would be interesting if there was a way to compile the filesystem
 libraries to have both versions of the required methods (wchar_t as well
 as signed short, I think it is), though I'm not sure how this would be
 done. I saw this issue with boost::log as well.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > --Beman
 No, thank you! I love this library.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8618#comment:7>
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