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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:40:08 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: wstring, how?
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Larry Hall wrote:

> At 06:31 PM 10/23/2004, you wrote:
> 
>>Larry Hall wrote:
>>
>>
>>>At 07:44 PM 10/22/2004, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>#include <string>
>>>>class{
>>>>std::wstring wstr;   //<<== syntax error before ; token
>>>>};
>>>>
>>>>g++ -Wall -g -c program.exe -o filename.cpp
>>>>
>>>>Can someone tell me what I am dong wrong or why I get this error message?
>>>
>>>
>>>Presuming you're using the latest Cygwin gcc/g++ release (3.3.3), take a look at /usr/include/g++-3/string and I think you'll find your answer.
>>>You can add the wstring typedef yourself and then things compile fine, assuming you fix the 'typo' of the missing class name.
>>>Gerrit, do you know why <string> has the wstring typedef commented out?
>>
>>wchar_t and wstring are not in newlib and so they are not in cygwin.
> 
> 
> 
> Yeah, I thought of that but then I grepped through newlib and there seemed
> to be plenty of references to it.  Then I added:
> 
> namespace std {
> typedef std::basic_string <wchar_t> wstring;
> };
> 
> after the '#include <string>' above, fixed the typo to add a class name,
> and things compiled fine for me.  So it seems to me like newlib is not 
> the bottleneck for wide character support.  Or did I miss something?

Hmmm, isn't it exported by cygwin1.dll then?
I cannot find wstring in cygwin.din.


Gerrit
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