id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1628	Lack of wide character support prevents boost.serialization from linking	cole@…	Robert Ramey	"Using MSYS and MinGW
Using latest SVN release

MSYS's libstdc++ does not support wchar_t and thus all files that use wide characters have not compiled in MSYS. This hasn't been a problem in the past, the lib/dll/a files have always been generated and were linked fine.

In the latest svn however, this was not the case. There was lots of failure surrounding:
{{{
bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\release\threading-multi\codecvt_null.o:codecvt_null.cpp:(.rdata$_ZTVSt7codecvtIwciE[vtable for std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, int>]+0x28): undefined reference to `std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, int>::do_max_length() const'
}}}


etc....

So I deleted most of codecvt_null.cpp leaving only the boost macro at the top and the include for codecvt_null.hpp. This ""worked"". It linked together and I now have my nice serialization library sitting waiting for me to test out.

Hopefully I specified the correct ticket properties... I got a bit confused."	Bugs	closed	Boost 1.35.0	serialization		Showstopper	fixed