Hi all, I am having a small problem with boost's program options library. In the documentation it states that to parse a command file you are suppose to use the "parse_command_file" function as follows: parse_config_file("example.cfg", desc) When attempting this, my compiler (gcc 3.3.3) issues an error stating: decoder.cpp:61: error: no matching function for call to `parse_config_file( const char[12], boost::program_options::options_description&)' It appears that opposed to calling the constructor for basic_istream the compiler attempts to find a function with char[12] as the first argument. To circumvent this error I can do the follow: Std::ifstream in( "config.cfg" ); Parse_config_file( in, desc ); And it works. I would rather use the first method opposed to the second so is there someway for it to be used instead? Thanks, Stephen