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Re: Bug? No _TCHAR type is defined


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:30:44AM -0800, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
>Type _TCHAR is not defined in cygwin tchar.h header,
>only TCHAR type. According to Microsoft documentation
>type _TCHAR should be used for creating Unicode/ANSII
>portable applications.
>
>MBCS Survival Guide at
>http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/fareast/mbcssg.asp
> says:
>"For ANSI conformance, the "official" type is _TCHAR.
>In practice, either TCHAR or _TCHAR is acceptable."
>
>
>See also "Using Generic-Text Mappings" at:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_crt_using_generic.2d.text_mappings.asp

Cygwin doesn't actually have a 'tchar.h'.  There is one in /usr/include/mingw,
though, so you should check with that project about this:  http://www.mingw.org .

cgf

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