Dear All, The latest version of the Iostreams library is now available: http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/iostreams/ I'd like to thank everyone who sent me bug reports after I posted the previous version. I will include you in the acknowledgments when I rewrite the documentation. Contents: - I. Changes - II. Supported platforms - III. Remaining bugs. ----- I. Changes. There are two important changes. First, the code conversion component has been renamed "code_converter", and it now has an optional Codecvt template parameter. Example. #include #include // Perform code conversion using the global locale: typedef code_converter wide_mapped_file_source; // Perform code conversion using utf8_codecvt_facet: typedef code_converter< mapped_file_source, utf8_codecvt_facet > utf8_mapped_file_source; code_converter has now been tested with all the codecvt facets from the Dinkumware CoreX library. Second, there is now an option to build the libraries zlib and bzip2 from the source, rather than linking to a pre-built version. To build zlib from the source, define the following variables: ZLIB_SOURCE - path to the .co files ZLIB_INCLUDE - path to the .he files, if different from ZLIB_SOURCE To link to a pre-built version, define the following variables: ZLIB_INCLUDE - path to the .h files ZLIB_LIBPATH - path to the library or archive file ZLIB_BINARY - name of the library or archive file If ZLIB_LIBPATH is not defined, it is assumed that the library file is in a location where it will be found automatically. If ZLIB_BINARY is not defined, it defaults to "z" on UNIX and Cygwin, and to "zdll" on windows (see http://www.gzip.org/zlib/DLL_FAQ.txt). Similar remarks apply for bzip2. ----- II. Supported platforms The tests have been run on the following platforms: VC7.1 with Dinkumware GCC 3.2 (MinGW) GCC 3.4.2 (MinGW) GCC 3.4.1 (Cygwin) CodeWarrior 8.3 (static runtime only) Intel 7.1 with Dinkumware (static runtime only) Intel 8.0 with Dinkumware Borland 5.6.4 with STLPort Failures: - GCC (MinGW, Cygwin): wide streams not supported - Borland 5.6.4: undiagnosed runtime errors in seekable_file_test.cpp, direct_adapter_test.cpp and code_converter_test.cpp III. Remaining bugs. Although the bzip2 tests pass on all the platforms in II, there is an outstanding problem reported by Michel Decima which I haven't been able to fix yet. Best Regards, Jonathan