On 11/17/16 10:52 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
Why do you think mingw/gcc on Windows does not support std::wstring ? I would be very surprised if that were the case unless you were testing a very, very old version of mingw/gcc.
When I look at the test matrix at http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/serialization.html all the gcc-mngw versions are failing. I checked the first one which happened to be gcc 3.4 and that was the message. I mistakenly assumed that all the failures were due to the same issue. So I see you're right here. So the library is failing to build for all mngw platforms. Unfortunately, the test matrix truncates the error messages due to a large number of warnings on that plaform before any actual error message is displayed. This makes it impossible to make the library work on this plaform. This an ongoing problem which I've complained before - alas without getting anyone to take action. Robert Ramey