Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:34:48 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: apa3a@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Bug? No _TCHAR type is defined Message-ID: <20020122163448.GF14458@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, apa3a@yahoo.com References: <20020122153044.82280.qmail@web20208.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020122153044.82280.qmail@web20208.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/