RE: [Boost-users] Compilation problem with BOOST::filesystem lib

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-22 10:14:47

Peter Koerber <pk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> i try to compile the *.cpp files of boost::filesystem within the
> following environment:
> 
> os:         Windows XP
> compiler:   Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (this is the free version 
>             of MS Visual C++ V7.1)
> boost:      Version 1.31.0
> 
> If BOOST_WINDOWS is defined, the file windows.h is included 
> in the sources:
> * exception.cpp
> * operations_posix_windows.cpp.
> 
> Otherwise the file errno.h is included.
> 
> BOOST_WINDOWS is defined within the environment mentioned above,
> but the compiler does not have a windows.h include file. Hence
> compilation fails.
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You need to install the Windows Platform SDK as well as the Toolkit.