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 Ramey "chun ping wang" <cablepuff@gmail.com> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users