I think you don't have the same errors because you are using 2.6.1 right? I am still using 2.4.2 
lol.. both really. I'm using 2.6.1 primarly for the SCon's build scripts because my main goal was to due away with makefiles and be able to choose the wxversion... but the unicode issue I'm using 2.4.x .. but I might not have experinced your error because I have yet to get to the linking stage ;p .. still working on getting the source files to compile..
