I built bjam for 1.31 and then I built bcp for 1.31 using MingW/GCC 3.3.1 using bjam version 1. I then opened a command prompt, went to the root directory of my Boost 1.31 distribution and tried: bcp --list shared_ptr I received this error message: **** exception(205): std::runtime_error: Error opening for output. ******** errors detected; see standard output for details ******** I then went to the boost subdirectory of my Boost 1.31 distribution and typed the same command as above and received: no errors detected but no other output was printed on standard out. I am just trying to get a list of any dependencies which shared_ptr has using bcp. What am I missing in this entire procedure ? It does not appear that bcp is working correctly but maybe I am missing something in how it should be working.