Hi, I'm having killer problems with the filesystem library. I'm compiling it with bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw", which seems to work just fine. All the tests pass etc. Then I wrote this simple program: #include <boost/filesystem/path.hpp> #include <iostream> using namespace std; using namespace boost::filesystem; int main() { try { path p("c:",native); } catch (exception & e) { cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << endl; return 1; } cerr << "Ok" << endl; return 0; } and compiled it with the Makefile: test: test.cpp Makefile g++ -g -I../boost/boost-compiled -I. -Wall -c test.cpp g++ -g -Wl,-enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-subsystem,console -Wall -o test.exe test.o libboost_filesystem-mgw-d-1_32.lib g++ -g -Wl,-enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-subsystem,console -Wall -o test-dll.exe test.o -L. -lboost_filesystem-mgw-d-1_3 (adjust for your paths, I copied the dlls and libs into the local dir Just To Be Sure). The output of running the two programs is as follows: paul@xyz ~/test $ ./test Ok paul@xyz ~/test $ ./test-dll.exe Error: boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c:" in path: "c:" Why does it behave differently depending on the linkage? If I must use a .lib, what if it needs to be used in multiple .dlls of mine? Help? Thanks Paul