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Bug 2065

Summary: SDL_messagebox only prints one character of the message
Product: SDL Reporter: Nathaniel J Fries <nfries88>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows 7   

Description Nathaniel J Fries 2013-08-27 05:25:04 UTC 
Example:
SDL_ShowSimpleMessageBox(SDL_MESSAGEBOX_INFORMATION, "Hello", "World", 0);

The result is a message box with the title properly "Hello", but with the text inside the message box being only "W".

Revision: 7700
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Compiler: MinGW32, GCC 4.7.2
Target: i686, Windows Console 32-bit

Flags from makefile generated by configure:
CFLAGS  = -g -O3 -DUSING_GENERATED_CONFIG_H
EXTRA_CFLAGS = -I./include  -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -Wall
LDFLAGS = 
EXTRA_LDFLAGS =  -lm -ldinput8 -ldxguid -ldxerr8 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -limm32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lshell32 -lversion -luuid -XCClinker -static-libgcc
Comment 1 Nathaniel J Fries 2013-08-29 12:13:38 UTC 
The issue appears to be in the definition of the macro WIN_UTF8ToString

When I force unicode by adding -DUNICODE and -D_UNICODE in the makefile and rebuilding, the issue is resolved.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2013-10-18 06:18:44 UTC 
This was an issue with the mingw32 build.  Fixed!
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/1451063c8ecd