Re: [Boost-users] Newbie -- Regex, Unicode, XCode and MacOSX

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-21 05:33:42

> Hello.  I'm trying to incorporate Unicode regex searching in a little
> app I'm doing.  I'm building using XCode 1.2 on MacOSX 10.3.4.  The
> problem I'm having is that I can't seem to get boost's regex to
> incorporate unicode or wide-character support.  In
> <boost/config/platform/macos.hpp> there is the line #define
> BOOST_NO_CWCHAR which seems to disable allowance for unicode by causing
> boost::wregex and boost::wcmatch symbols to not be typedef-ed.  A test
> app. shows that these symbols are defined when I build using
> Codewarrior.  So I'm wondering how to get unicode support for regex
> using XCode (gcc) on a MacOSX machine.  Any suggestions?

Are these symbols correctly defined? Can you comment them out and still get
a clean compile?

John.