Ahem, could someone please answer my simple question: Is is possible to compile programs which use Boost and STLPort (instead of Microsoft Foundation Classes) with the Intel compiler, on Windows? I am getting all kinds of weird errors which relate to streaming operators, which makes me think that my usage of STLPort might be involved? On the other hand, if I use MSCV6 instead of Intel compiler (7.0) I do not get the same errors. It seems that some of our in-house software can't be compiled with MSVC6 because of problems this specific compiler has with templates. The same code compiles without problem on the latest GCC compilers. My latest source of joy is the following (about which I am totally clueless) : C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOOST_1_30_0\boost/lexical_cast.hpp(147): error: no operator "<<" matches these operands operand types are: std::basic_stringstream<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, std::allocator<wchar_t>> << const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>> return stream << input; ^ detected during: instantiation of "bool={bool} boost::detail::lexical_stream<Target, Source>::operator<<(const Source &) [with Target=unsigned short, Source=std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>]" at line 192 instantiation of "Target boost::lexical_cast<Target,Source>(Source) [with Target=unsigned short, Source=std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>]" at line 30 of "C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOOST_1_30_0\boost/date_time/ time_parsing.hpp" instantiation of "time_duration boost::date_time::parse_delimited_time_duration<time_duration>(const std::string &) [with time_duration=boost::posix_time::time_duration]" C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOOST_1_30_0\boost/lexical_cast.hpp(153): error: no operator ">>" matches these operands operand types are: std::basic_stringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>> >> boost::int64_t stream >> output && ^ detected during: instantiation of "bool={bool} boost::detail::lexical_stream<Target, Source>::operator>>(InputStreamable &) [with Target=boost::int64_t={__int64}, Source=std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>, InputStreamab le=boost::int64_t={__int64}]" at line 192 instantiation of "Target boost::lexical_cast<Target,Source>(Source) [with Target=boost::int64_t={__int64}, Source=std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>]" at line 47 of "C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOOST_1_30_0\boost/ date_time/time_parsing.hpp" instantiation of "time_duration boost::date_time::parse_delimited_time_duration<time_duration>(const std::string &) [with time_duration=boost::posix_time::time_duration]" Greetings, Andre.