On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Robert Jones <robertgbjones@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
Robert wrote:
I've recently upgraded to the lastest version of Cygwin and found that this current version supports wchar_t, wstring, etc
Yes! Finally! MinGW also now supports them. Filesystem V3 requires wchar_t, wstring, etc., and all the tests pass with both Cygwin and MinGW.
I can't recall the details, but IIRC there was chatter a while back that due to limitations of Cygwin/MinGW you'd decided drop full support for these platforms from Boost.Filesystem.
Yes, and as a result the code became much cleaner and easier to write/read/debug. At that time, several Boosters asked the Cygwin folks for wide character support, and they gave that long standing issue higher priority soon afterwords.
Assuming my recollections are broadly correct, does this latest development now mean that Cygwin/MinGW are again fully supported by Boost.Filesystem.
Yes, I've been testing filesystem on both Cygwin and MinGW (downloaded directly, not via Cygwin) from the Windows command line. All tests are passing on Cygwin, and all tests are passing on MinGW with static linking. I fairly sure the dynamic linking problem with MinGW is their problem, not a Boost problem. I haven't tested filesystem from the cygwin/bash command line, so if someone wants to test trunk in that environment I'd like to hear about the results. Thanks for the interest, --Beman