On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:04 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
on Thu Feb 05 2009, frederic.bron-AT-alcan.com wrote:
I've decided not to attempt support for Cygwin in the next version of Boost.Filesystem.
I have posted your comments on the cygwin mailing list and post the answer below. It says that cygwin is not using the GNU C library but newlib which does not have the full set of wide character functions. Any idea how to help newlib get the missing functions?
Implement them?
Maybe it's too facile an answer, but I can't think of anything else...
I'm also running on the assumption that implementing them is in the cards, but I wanted assurance that if we went to the effort of implementing them, the implementations would be accepted into newlib. Thanks mostly to Frederic, we seem to have finally attracted the attention of some of the key people. I've subscribed to the newlib list and am starting to get a handle on what their requirements are. --Beman