Re: [Mingw-users] wchar.h: FILENAME_MAX, __MSVCRT_VERSION__ >= 0x0800

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Jim Bell wrote:
> I'm building boost with these flags:
> 
> WINVER=0x0800
> 
> __MSVCRT_VERSION__=0x0A00
> 
> 
> I get:
> f:\mingw\20110316\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../include/wchar.h:376:16:
> error: 'FILENAME_MAX' was not declared in this scope
> f:\mingw\20110316\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../include/wchar.h:385:16:
> error: 'FILENAME_MAX' was not declared in this scope
> f:\mingw\20110316\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../include/wchar.h:394:16:
> error: 'FILENAME_MAX' was not declared in this scope
> 
> I can throw FILENAME_MAX=260 into the command-line, but thought you'd
> all like to know about it. (Or that *I* should know if I'm missing
> something.)

Definitely a bug in wchar.h.  http://www.mingw.org/Reporting_Bugs

You can also, #include <stdio.h> to work around the problem, but the
other definitions use 260 directly in the declarations and not FILENAME_MAX.

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