Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:40:35AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> According to Linda Walsh on 5/22/2008 1:14 PM: >> | Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its >> | system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'. >> | >> |

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-23 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Linda Walsh on 5/22/2008 1:14 PM: | Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its | system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'. | | Cygwin doesn't need to support unicode anymore than | the linux kernel does. It

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Linda Walsh on 5/22/2008 1:14 PM: | Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its | system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'. | | Cygwin doesn't need to support unicode anymore than | the linux kernel does. It's whoever built th

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-22 Thread Linda Walsh
jadooo wrote: Thanks a lot for the valuable information. I am trying to port my application developed in linux to windows, now as it is quiet clear that I could not use cygwin, due to lack of Unicode support, is there any other alternative to try out my porting activity. --- Linux doesn

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jadooo wrote: I just come across one article in google about UTF-8 Cygwin http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/ Just wanted to check about this. As per the documentation here it says that the Cygwin it is providing will suport Unicode. Is it worth to go back and try this out. You can t

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-22 Thread jadooo
I just come across one article in google about UTF-8 Cygwin http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/ Just wanted to check about this. As per the documentation here it says that the Cygwin it is providing will suport Unicode. Is it worth to go back and try this out. Brian Dessent wrote: >

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-22 Thread jadooo
Ya I am trying MinGW now. But since it is like building on the windows platform, we need to get round with concepts which differ on the posix and the windows system. Currently I am dealing with the Signals, one such problem. In in my linux based code we have used the sigaction() concept which

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-21 Thread Longyu Mei
How about minGW? Did you try that? I have similiar problem and I will try to see if there is any difference. --- jadooo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the valuable information. > > I am trying to port my application developed in > linux to windows, now as > it is quiet clear t

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-21 Thread jadooo
Thanks a lot for the valuable information. I am trying to port my application developed in linux to windows, now as it is quiet clear that I could not use cygwin, due to lack of Unicode support, is there any other alternative to try out my porting activity. Thanking you all once again for the gr

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-20 Thread Brian Dessent
jadooo wrote: > Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Yes, you are misunderstanding the nature of the problem. In order to support the wstring class, gcc relies on the platform's libc supporting wide character C99 functions. newlib does not have the necessary support[1] so until that

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-20 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-05-20 17:16Z, jadooo wrote: > > I tried the code from the CVS, but with those changes also the simple > 'wstring' program is not compiling. > > What all I did to test : > > 1) Have done a fresh Cygwin[1.5] installation. > 2) From http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ have downloaded the > cygwi

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-20 Thread jadooo
Hi, I tried the code from the CVS, but with those changes also the simple 'wstring' program is not compiling. What all I did to test : 1) Have done a fresh Cygwin[1.5] installation. 2) From http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ have downloaded the cygwin-inst-20080407.tar.bz2 file 3) tar -xvjf cygwin-

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jadooo wrote: Thanks a lot for the valuable information. I have some more question on the same, just to clarrify things a bit more.. What do u mean by full unicode enabled?? Simple. Cygwin 1.5.x doesn't support Unicode. Code in CVS for the next release series (1.7.x) will. If you want t

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-17 Thread jadooo
Thanks a lot for the valuable information. I have some more question on the same, just to clarrify things a bit more.. What do u mean by full unicode enabled?? Will my code which contains 'wstring' compile? I have to take some decisions based on this, so would like to know how could I c

Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

2008-05-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 jadooo wrote: | I was trying to compile my code on Cygwin[1.5.25-11] with GCC[4.1.2], | but I am not able to build with errors on wstring. Cygwin 1.5 is not fully unicode enabled and does not provide wstring; you'll need to wait for 1.7. Yaakov -