[Python-Dev] Adventures with x64, VS7 and VS8 on Windows (original) (raw)

Kristján Valur Jónsson kristjan at ccpgames.com
Mon May 21 12:39:05 CEST 2007

-----Original Message----- This was in C++, but the problem was really WCHAR, as used by much of the win32 API.

> I'd rather make it a platform-specific definition (for > platform=Windows > API). Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't wchart also available in VS > 2003 (and even in VC6?). And doesn't it have the "right" definition in > all these compilers? hrm - as above, I'm more concerned with the definition of WCHAR - which means my problem is related more to the Platform SDK version rather than the compiler. This is unfortunate - on one hand we do consider 'platform=Windows API', and WCHAR is very much an API concept. I'll need to dig some more into this, but at least I know I'm not wasting my time :)

Mark, your problem may be related to a setting in the "c/c++ -> language" tab in the settings, where "treat wchar_t as a builtin type" default has changed. I recommend that we do treat it as a builtin, but the VS2003 default was "no" and the 2005 is "yes". Could this be contributing to your problem?

Kristjan

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