I am forwarding this email from the boost mailing list. I basically says that the next version of the boost filesystem library (a well known library for C++ programming at www.boost.org) will not compile on cygwin because of the lack of wide character support. What can be done to make gcc/g++ standard conformant on this point so that C++ programmers can continue to use cygwin?
F. Bron boost-boun...@lists.boost.org a écrit sur 13/01/2009 15:16:02 : > I've decided not to attempt support for Cygwin in the next version of > Boost.Filesystem. > > Cygwin's lack of library support for wchar_t is the problem . For the > current Boost.Filesystem version (v2), the necessary workarounds are so > pervasive that the implementation code is much harder to read and > maintain. Witness the number of bug reports that are Cygwin specific. > For v3, currently under development, trying to support Cygwin would be > even harder, and would cause a serious delay in development. Plus I'm > tired of waiting for the cygwin folks to come into full C++ conformance. > > IIUC, the reason Cygwin doesn't provide C++ standard library support for > wchar_t is that the underlying C library is missing the C wchar_t > functions. Perhaps Boosters who care about Cygwin could spearhead an > effort to add the missing C support? The needed functionality isn't all > that complex; the main problem might be just learning enough about how > Cygwin/GCC is configured and built to be able to add a fairy small > number of C functions. > > Thoughts? > > --Beman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
