Wide character support in libc.a

[Phillip Carruthers]

We are building an application on HPUX 11.11 with gcc and functions such as wctob() (wide character to byte) as being used by the std::locale.

When we try to run the application on a HPUX 11.00 system the libc shared library does not have wctob() etc.

Is there a patch for this version of HPUX or does anybody know how to get round the issue?

Please note cannot build a static application as the build conflicts with a third party library.

[Dennis Handly]

You are out of luck. 11.11 had a whole bunch of new wchar functions added. These can't be moved back to 11.00. Only forward compatibility is supported.

You do know that 11.00 is no longer supported?]

Any reason you aren't using wctomb(3)?
If the length > 1, then that is an error.

[Phillip Carruthers]

Thankyou for your reply.