How to build gcc to support wchar_t and wstring on Cygwin

Mark J. Reed markjreed@gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 20:22:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Match Point
> wstring is not supported on my Cygwin 1.5.25. When I  declare a
> wstring variable my g++ 3.4.4 complains wstring is undeclared. After
> reading some posted message I figured out wstring is not supported on
> Cygwin 1.5 or even 1.7. To fix this I have to rebuild entire gcc.

No, to fix that you have to convince the newlib developers to add
wstring support to newlib.

> _GLIBCXX_USE_WCHAR_T is still not defined.

Cygwin does not use glibc.
-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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