wx3.1 linux .configure options for ToStdWString Topic is solved

[coderrc]

I am trying to get some code to compile on linux but I can't seem to get ToStdWString to compile

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error : ‘class wxString’ has no member named ‘ToStdWString’

my last attempt to build wxwidgets used

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../configure --enable-cxx11 --enable-stl --disable-shared --enable-utf8 --enable-xlocale --enable-html --with-gtk=3 --with-regex --enable-intl --enable-unicode 

I am running ubuntu 16

any help would be greatly appreciated

eta here is my command line

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g++ -c -x c++ /home/dev/projects/linuxscratchpad/main.cpp -I "/usr/local/include/wx-3.1" -I "/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-static-3.1/" -I /home/dev/projects/linuxscratchpad -I "/usr/include/glib-2.0" -I "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/" -I "/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-static-3.1" -I "/usr/local/include/wx-3.1" -g2 -gdwarf-2 -o "/home/dev/projects/linuxscratchpad/obj/x64/Debug/main.o" -Wall -Wswitch -W"no-deprecated-declarations" -W"empty-body" -Wconversion -W"return-type" -Wparentheses -W"no-format" -Wuninitialized -W"unreachable-code" -W"unused-function" -W"unused-value" -W"unused-variable" -O0 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-omit-frame-pointer -D__WXGTK__ -D_UNICODE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fthreadsafe-statics -fexceptions -frtti -std=c++11

and a sample source code

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#include <wx/wx.h>
#include <wx/string.h>
#include <wx/arrstr.h> 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>

int main()
{
	printf("hello from linuxscratchpad!\n");
	
	wxString wxteststr("this is a test");
	std::wstring test = wxteststr.ToStdWString();

	printf("done\n");
	return 0;
}

[doublemax]

By default wxString uses std::[w]string internally, did you try just "std::wstring test = wxteststr;" ?

[coderrc]

no. The thing is that I use wxString to convert easily between wstring, string, and char* for use with various api calls. so it isnt really just a matter of needing ToStdWstring but also ToStdString

it all seems to work fine under windows but i cant seem to find the magic bullet for linux

[doublemax]

The documentation for wxString says:

If you built wxWidgets with wxUSE_STL set to 1, the implicit conversions to both narrow and wide C strings are disabled and replaced with implicit conversions to std::string and std::wstring.

Maybe try --disable-stl

[coderrc]

thanks man. it looks like that did the trick. It looks like my main problem was that without intellisense to hold my hand, I typed ToStdWString instead of ToStdWstring.

thanks again!

[ONEEYEMAN]

In addition to what doublemax said,
Always start with just basic "../configure && make". The default configure options are enough in 99.99% of use cases.

Only if something doesn't work as expected, try to play with configure options.

Thank you.