David Abrahams wrote:
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?
It makes makes archives based on wide character streams unusable with the versions I've seen for gcc that work on window. Other archives work just fine. If one needs to use an archive which is based on wide character i/o (ie wstreambuf) on windows, he will have to procure such an implementation. I don't have one and I don't know where to get one. Sorry Perhaps there is a little bit of confusion in the following. All archives included in the libray support i/o wide characters and wstring. When loading/storing wide characters on normal character archives, translation between unicode and multibyte code base on the current locale is made on the fly. Thus any archive will hold any datatypes. If one wants to use some other locale for this purpose it can be tied to the stream in the normal way before he archive is created. unicode<->multi-byte translation is slightly fragile due to the requirement of picking the correct locale. But if you don't have wide character i/o available, its your only choice. Robert Ramey