Re: [Boost-users] can't initialize boost::filesystem::path

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] can't initialize boost::filesystem::path
From: ahassaine_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-11-10 09:55:14

Thanks a lot. This solves the problem

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Eric MALENFANT <
Eric.Malenfant_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> ahassaine, le 8 novembre 2008 08:12:
> >
> > I'm using boost 1.33 with Visual C++ 7.
> > I need to create an instance of boost::filesystem::path.
> > I tried :
> >
> >
> >       std::string dir="c:\\";
> >       boost::filesystem::path my_path(dir);
> >
> > The compilation is successful but at the execution, I obtain
> > a non handled exception in the xstring file at the end of this
> > function :
> >
> >
> >            void _Tidy(bool _Built = false,
> [snip]
>
> I don't see how the following explains an exception in this function, but
> anyways, in case it helps:
>
> IIRC, the Filesystem library in 1.33 was "strict" by default, meaning that
> you could not construct a path from a non-portable syntax like the "c:\" you
> show above. To use such non-portable paths, you had to explicitely say so,
> by passing the "native" flag to the ctor. See
> http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/msg/69fdb04bca3ab4de
>
>
> Éric Malenfant
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