#ifndef WX_PRECOMP
     #include "wx/intl.h"
     #include "wx/log.h"
+    #include "wx/app.h"
 #endif
 
 #include "wx/wfstream.h"
 #include "expat.h" // from Expat
 
 // DLL options compatibility check:
-#include "wx/app.h"
 WX_CHECK_BUILD_OPTIONS("wxXML")
 
 
         const wxWCharBuffer wbuf(
             wxConvUTF8.cMB2WC(s, len == wxSTRING_MAXLEN ? wxNO_LEN : len, NULL));
 
-        return wxString(wbuf, conv);
+        return wxString(wbuf, *conv);
     }
     else // already in UTF-8, no conversion needed
     {