Change CEF_STRING_TYPE

[TakashiHSD]

Hi, I am trying to change CEF_STRING_TYPE to CEF_STRING_TYPE_WIDE from CEF_STRING_TYPE_UTF16 in https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/blob/master/include/internal/cef_string.h.
I am using the Minimal Distribution for windows32 https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/index.html#windows32.

cef_string.h says "// If you change the default you MUST recompile all of CEF.".

Does it mean we should re-build not only libcef_dll_wrapper.dll(lib), means modules we can build with the distributed package, but also libcef.dll(lib) and so on?
It seems to work fine by only re-building libcef_dll_wrapper.dll(lib), but I'm not sure if this is really okay.

Background

The char_type of CefString (CefStringTraitsUTF16) have changed to char16_t from char16 since CEF 115.
Char16 was wchar_t on my environment, so the type of CefString.c_str() have changed from wchar_t to char16_t.
Our product uses CefString.c_str() in many places, so I would like to change the default CefString type to CEF_STRING_TYPE_WIDE.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

[magreenblatt]

What OS are you using? On Windows, wchar_t is UTF-16 so you can reinterpret_cast<> between wchar_t and char16_t. On other platforms it is UTF-32 so you need to use conversion functions.

Does it mean we should re-build not only libcef_dll_wrapper.dll(lib), means modules we can build with the distributed package, but also libcef.dll(lib) and so on?

Yes.

[TakashiHSD]

> What OS are you using?

I'm using Windows.

> On Windows, wchar_t is UTF-16 so you can reinterpret_cast<> between wchar_t and char16_t.

Oh, I will try it! Thanks!

[TakashiHSD]

> What OS are you using?

I'm using Windows.

> On Windows, wchar_t is UTF-16 so you can reinterpret_cast<> between wchar_t and char16_t.

Oh, I will try it! Thanks!

It worked fine! Thanks!