[Boost-users] Hello: boost::filesystem with cygwin - windows style paths

From: Simon Lam (cryxia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-21 05:37:48

Hello all,

I've been fiddling around with the gnu gcc programming enviroment on 
cygwin, trying to make boost::filesystem work. I've hit a snag where the 
boost libraries consider my filesystem to be single rooted, and thus 
path won't take "c:\" as an argument.

I've compiled the simple_ls.cpp program included in the documentation. 
It uses boost::filesystem::path::native_file_string(), and this returns 
a unix style path. I've tried running "simple_ls c:" but it complains 
that /home/<path to current dir>/c: is unavailable.

I want to be able to use this in a program thats for windows, but 
independent of cygwin. Any ideas how to work around this?

 >Thanks
 >Simon
(ps: yah! my first post!)