Re: [Boost-users] wide char i/o problem.

on Tue Aug 14 2007, "Robert Ramey" wrote:

You'd have to talk with the mingw developers.

To use gcc on windows, I use cgwin which comes with gcc. A very good pacakge - but alas, it doesn't support wide characters either.

Robert, There are some fairly obvious questions you're not answering. For example, does this error make Boost.Serialization unusable with gcc on windows, and if not, how does one make it work?

"chun ping wang" wrote in message news:7253f6b30708141657r61ec3f0ej7daf0a2582a1766c@mail.gmail.com... while trying to compile boost i get several failure.

...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\releas e\link-static\runtime-link-static\text_wiarchive.o... gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\release\link-sta tic\runtime-link-static\text_woarchive.o libs\serialization\src\text_woarchive.cpp:13:2: #error "wide char i/o not suppor ted on this platform"

"C:/mingw/bin/gcc" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2\libs\serialization\bui ld\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\text_woarchive.o" "li bs\serialization\src\text_woarchive.cpp"

...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\releas e\link-static\runtime-link-static\text_woarchive.o... gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\release\link-sta tic\runtime-link-static\xml_wgrammar.o libs\serialization\src\xml_wgrammar.cpp:14:2: #error "wide char i/o not supporte d on this platform"

is their any ways for fix around this?

using gcc mingw 3.4.5

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