Boris wrote:

According to http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm#Cgywin Boost.Filesystem seems to be supported on Cygwin. However with the latest version 1.36.0 (which I've built with BOOST_POSIX_API defined) I don't seem to get any Boost.Filesystem function to work on Cygwin. I'm currently running some test cases and had to modify them for Cygwin like this:

When I compiled bcp for Cygwin, I had to define BOOST_CYGWIN_PATH before it worked correctly. I don't remember what was wrong or what that flag changes, so maybe someone else can explain it.