Re: [Mingw-users] Question to thread "C++ STL, DLLs and our friend RtlFreeHeap"

[Andreas G. <a-g...@gm...>]

Brian Dessent schrieb:
> Andreas Goebel wrote:
>
>   
>> I´m new to this list and didn´t now how to reply to this older thread I
>> found in the archive, so I am sorry I have to start a new thread.
>> The thread is about running into breakpoint-traps because of allocating
>> / deallocation of std::string in different dlls. I have exactly that
>> problem and use gcc mingw special 3.4.5 (the "candidate-version" from
>> the downloads-page).
>>     
>
> The easiest solution is probably with gmane.  The thread can be viewed
> here <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/20141> and you
> can reply through gmane by selecting Followup from the drop-down box.
>
>   
>> I have read in that thread that I would have to build libstd++ from
>> source and have to apply a patch before doing that.
>>
>> But searching the patches at sourceforge didn´t give any results for
>> gcc, g++ or libstd++.
>>
>> How can I get that patch? Or could I check out gcc from cvs, are the
>> patches applied in cvs?
>>     
>
> The patch is in PR24196, comment #11.  It's not in CVS anywhere, nor
> should you check out anything from CVS.  Firstly, because gcc long ago
> moved to Subversion, but more importantly because by using vanilla
> upstream gcc you would not get any of the mingw-local patches.
>   
Thank you very much. Now just two quick questions:
a) I guess I only have to use patch -p1 < draft1.diff
b) The changes seem to go to string.h only. Which part of gcc do I have 
to rebuild? g++ only?

Regards,

Andreas