wstring

Hi, I'm trying out to create an application but having trouble compiling stuff with wstring.

To get std::string to work I took the template and moved it to cpp instead of c.
More or less just added #include

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The std::string works but std:wstring fails to compile.

topfs@tobias:~/wii-dev/wii-examples/template$ make
template.cpp
/home/topfs/wii-dev/wii-examples/template/source/template.cpp: In function 'int main(int, char**)':
/home/topfs/wii-dev/wii-examples/template/source/template.cpp:58: error: 'wstring' is not a member of 'std'
/home/topfs/wii-dev/wii-examples/template/source/template.cpp:58: error: expected `;' before 's2'
make[1]: *** [template.o] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

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This has been covered before, newlib doesn't have a full wstring implementation. You'll have to write your own, or rather, you can find the source and strip it out.

I'm not sure if newlib is using STLPort or if that's worthwhile looking into.

Actually, I solved his trouble on IRC a few days ago.

typedef wstring basic_string;

Ah, great! Thanks for posting it here too =)

Yeah, if only the forum software hadn't eaten the mandatory special characters. Then I would actually have been useful.

henke37++ :)

I recently had the name problem and henke37's solution didn't work for me.

Using:

#define wstring basic_string

instead did work.

I just wanted to put that out there for anyone else who may be having trouble with this.

As I said, the forum ate critical parts of the code.

typedef wstring basic_string lessthensign short greatherthansign;

I will admit that I overlooked that.

Retrying with typedef and the correct version of your code produced the same errors again. Using #define instead worked perfectly and also took care of errors that I didn't even think were entirely related to wstring.

Thank you henke37 :)

Well, it's obviously not in the std namespace, so stop using it like it is.