afaik, that company (dimkumwhatever) wrote the MS stl library ... -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of arno.schaefer@sqs.de Sent: 04 October 2004 15:37 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: [Boost-users] Problem compiling Windows C++ code wit regex Hi all, I try to compile some older C++ Code with your RegEx class and got in some source code problems with some ambiguity I believe between the std and the global namespace. I followed the include hierarchie starting from "boost/regex.h" down to "boost\config\stdlib\dinkumware.hpp" and here was my first problem, why this stdlib implementation was selected, I don't think, that this is the normal implementation for "VC++ 6.0 SP6" what I am using!? The errors I got are located in some windows system header and look like this only in one source file: : d:\programme\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\objidl.h(9901) : error C2668: 'memset' : ambiguous call to overloaded function d:\programme\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\objbase.h(435) : error C2668: 'memcmp' : ambiguous call to overloaded function d:\programme\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\objbase.h(459) : error C2668: 'memcmp' : ambiguous call to overloaded function Error executing cl.exe. Any idea what kind of define can cause this problem? I visit every included headerfile and look also in the expanded preprocessor code (*.i file) and didn't see exactly what happend, so have somebody an idea? Thanks for your help Arno