Re: [Boost-users] strange filesystem dll behaviour

At 04:46 AM 1/19/2005, Paul wrote:

I'm having killer problems with the filesystem library.

I'm compiling it with bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw", which seems to work just fine. All the tests pass etc.

Then I wrote this simple program:...

I'm guessing BOOST_POSIX is getting defined, so you need to define BOOST_WINDOWS if you want the Windows rather POSIX behavior. See http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm#Cgywin for discussion. There have been past reports of problems with Cygwin; perhaps mingw has similar issues. Please let me know what you find out. Thanks, --Beman