-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Heiko Fechner Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:13 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problem with fs::path initialization in windows try this fs::path full_path( "C:\\cygwin\\boost", fs::native ); [Nat] Forgive me for being cynical, but this is what the various constructs look like to me. fs::path full_path(my_path_string); // Always crash, no matter how I try to express my path. fs::path full_path(my_path_string, fs::no_check); // Correctly expresses my desire: never throw when constructing this object. fs::path full_path(my_path_string, fs::native); // Only crash when a customer is running the program.