Re: [Boost-build] MSVC native wchar_t support

From: Bojan Resnik (resnikb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-15 17:27:18

> Could we tell us why is this a requirement of your project?
>
> Until recently I thought I had the same requirement on a project I was
> trying to move to msvc-7.1 from msvc-6.0. Eventually I found out that
> the project depended on a comsupp.lib library, and msvc-7.1 provides a
> comsuppw.lib alternative for projects using /Zc:wchar_t.

  My company develops addins for third-party programs. The SDK I have
to use for this third-party program is compiled with MSVC 7.1 with
native wchar_t off. As these are commercial programs, we have no
control over this, and have to compile our addins with the same
settings.
-- 
Bojan Resnik