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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Eric, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is what we are trying to do:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- do you want that all places where WCHAR is used (meaning utf16) is replaced by utf32 encoding?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Yes, all usage would be utf-32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- do you want applications compiled in current WCHAR=2 bytes (including native windows applications) and applications with your WCHAR=4 bytes run in the same wine instance?<span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">This would be WCHAR=4 bytes only. Native Windows Applications do not need to be supported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- cross compiling or simply compiling ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">No cross-compilation. Currently planning to compile/build under Linux only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and perhaps to start with, why is current utf16 encoding not sufficient?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">We are trying to build Windows application using Wine Lib as native application (i.e. winelib
<a href="https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib</span></a> /
<a href="https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide</span></a> rather than wine to run Windows binaries).
So that we can use other glibc functionality as well that use and expect native wchar_t sizes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mahin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eric Pouech <eric.pouech@orange.fr> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 3, 2022 5:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mahin Pandya <mahin.pandya@actian.com>; wine-devel@winehq.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Wine Source build on native wchar_t 4 bytes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 03/05/2022 à 17:09, Mahin Pandya a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are trying to build Wine Source on Linux with native wchar_t size 4 bytes (instead of 2 bytes), is there any way it can be done?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>not simply I'm afraid<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>could you clarify your intend, ie:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>- do you want that all places where WCHAR is used (meaning utf16) is replaced by utf32 encoding?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Yes, all usage would be utf-32</span><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>- do you want applications compiled in current WCHAR=2 bytes (including native windows applications) and applications with your WCHAR=4 bytes run in the same wine instance?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">This would be WCHAR=4 bytes only. Native Windows Applications do not need to be supported.</span><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>- cross compiling or simply compiling ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">No cross-compilation. Currently planning to compile/build under Linux only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>and perhaps to start with, why is current utf16 encoding not sufficient?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">We are trying to build Windows application using Wine Lib as native application (i.e. winelib
<a href="https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib</span></a> /
<a href="https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide"><span style="color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#385723;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide</span></a> rather than wine to run Windows binaries).
So that we can use other glibc functionality as well that use and expect native wchar_t sizes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>A+<o:p></o:p></p>
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