Re: [Boost-users] [filesystem] About use on Windows

From: gchen (chengang31_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-22 05:33:18

Kirit Sælensminde wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
[...]
> We ran into two problems with the filesystem library, the first we're 
> starting with.
> 
> 1) The initial problem was that we had always been compiling with the 
> __fastcall convention, but the Boost libraries are built using __cdecl. 
> In the end we switched to __cdecl, but should there not be a #define 
> with the build declaration in the headers?
> 
Speaking of the coming boost version 1.34...

Boost.Filesystem has a macro BOOST_FILESYSTEM_DECL, which should be
what you are looking for.

> 2) The path class only uses narrow strings. For use with the standard 
> C++ libraries this seems fine, but I think once the new standard goes 
> through there should be wide character variants for the file library. In 
> any case we often use bits of the Win32 API which do take wide 
> characters. I'm just wondering if we should just copy the path class to 
> make a wpath class path and if we do so should we give that copy back to 
> integrate with the normal Boost library?
> 

The Boost.Filesystem in 1.34 supports both wide and narrow string. And
I saw there are lots of improvement.