Here is some code slightly modified from an example in the documentation for boost::program_options. <code> #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <string> #include <boost/program_options/positional_options.hpp> #include <boost/program_options/variables_map.hpp> #include <boost/program_options/parsers.hpp> namespace po = boost::program_options; int main(int argc, char ** argv) { po::positional_options_description desc; desc.add("files", -1); std::cout << "Declared positional options." << std::endl; po::variables_map vm; po::store(po::command_line_parser(argc, argv).positional(desc).run(), vm); std::cout << "Stored command line arguments into vm." << std::endl; po::notify(vm); std::cout << "Notified vm that all args have been parsed" << std::endl; std::cout << " num files specified: " << vm.count("files") << std::endl; std::vector<std::string> files = vm["files"].as<std::vector<std::string>

(); for (unsigned int i = 0; i < files.size(); ++i) { std::cout << "file: " << files[i] << std::endl; }

return 0; } </code> Linking with version 1.40, the above code, when run with the command line arguments "hello world", produces the following output: <shell> Declared positional options. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::exception_detail::clone_\ impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<boost::program_options::unkno\ wn_option> >' what(): unknown option files Aborted </shell> Linking with version 1.43, the above code, when run with the command line arguments "hello world", produces the following output: <shell> Declared positional options. Segmentation fault </shell> Am I missing something about how to use positional arguments with this library? I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on x86. The 1.40 version of boost::program_options was installed through the repositories, I compiled the 1.43 version manually. Jeffrey