widechar functions in cygwin

Im trying to compile a win32 program in unicode with cygwin but I keep getting the error:

Code:

void MsgBox(const wchar_t *message, const wchar_t *title, int flags)
{
  MessageBox(m_hwnd, message, title, flags);
}

window.cpp: In function 'void MsgBox(const wchar_t*, const wchar
_t*, int)':
window.cpp:52: error: cannot convert 'const wchar_t*' to 'const CHAR*' for a
rgument '2' to 'int MessageBoxA(HWND__*, const CHAR*, const CHAR*, UINT)'

apparently it's trying to compile the char versions, but I did specify

CFLAGS="-DUNICODE -D_UNICODE"
CXXFLAGS="-DUNICODE -D_UNICODE"

in the makefile.

What else do I need to do to get the widechar versions?

Try a big fat #define UNICODE and #define _UNICODE at the top of your code

did that before every windows.h include but still same problem. compiles fine in visual studio but not cygwin

Cygwin Unicode support came out the end of last year, not sure if that would make a difference.

Or if you can...

Code:

void MsgBox(const TCHAR * message, const TCHAR * title, int flags)
{
  MessageBox(m_hwnd, message, title, flags);
}

Or:

Code:

void MsgBox(LPCTSTR message, LPCTSTR title, int flags)
{
  MessageBox(m_hwnd, message, title, flags);
}

That way who cares whether Unicode is set (although it might matter upstream).

Otherwise, if you don't care about the ANSI version, use MessageBoxW() instead...