Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW + Boost

[Mei, L. <LM...@an...>]

 
Thank you, Andy.

Anybody can tell me the steps to build boost under MinGW? Do I need
MSYS?

Thanks,

James

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Rushton
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:26 AM
To: min...@li...
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW + Boost

Mei, Longyu wrote:
> I was failed when I tried to build latest boost with latest Cygwin
> because Cygwin does not support wide char (Unicode) yet. I am
wondering
> that does MinGW support wide char?

Yes it does - wchar_t, and wide string - std::wstring, but *not* wide 
streams. So if you want to manipulate wide chars and strings in memory 
then that will do the job.

By the way, because MinGW is compiling for native Windows, and Windows 
uses only 16-bit wide strings, because the Win32 interface pre-dates the

extension of Unicode to more than 16 bits. So the wide char on MinGW is 
also 16 bits. This is interpreted as UTF-16 encoded Unicode by the 
Windows system calls.

Andy


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