Re: [Boost-users] Problem with fs::path initialization in windows

From: Nat Goodspeed (ngoodspeed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-12 08:49:12

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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 6:41 AM
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Subject: [Boost-users] Problem with fs::path initialization in windows

I have a little problem with initialization of boost filesystem path.
I'm 
working on Cygwin in Windows XP.

But when I try to use a path of my own, say:
 fs::path full_path( "C:\\cygwin\\boost" );
I get thrown with an exception. Same deal with the rest of the
combinations 
I can think of:
C:/cygwin/boost
c:/cygwin/boost.
c/cygwin and
/cygwin don't throw but the paths are not found.

So how do initialize the fs::path with a Windows type of directory path?

[Nat] Have you tried something like:
fs::path full_path("some string", fs::no_check);
?
I've found that the best policy with boost::filesystem is to explicitly
disable its name check on every instantiation. In fact I've introduced a
local subclass with a constructor accepting a path string; the
constructor simply passes the string to the base-class constructor along
with boost::filesystem::no_check.