cygwin builds and unicode support

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Sun Mar 21 20:08:00 GMT 2010


On 21/03/2010 18:06, mike marchywka wrote:
> I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into
> all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- 

  The most likely cause of the problem is that cygwin uses 16-bit wide chars,
where linux has 32-bit ones.  How you solve that is going to depend on exactly
how deeply any assumptions about bit-ness of wchar_t is implicit in the webkit
code, if that does indeed turn out to be the case.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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