Hi Rob, Rob Lievaart wrote:

But the mingw provided stdlib.h contains an unconditional

#define environ _environ

So it does not compile :-(

I changed parser.cpp to

#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined( __MINGW32__ ) char **environ = _environ; #endif

And now it compiles and the samples run,

I've applied this workaround and updated the packages.

but I have not actually tried to use enviroment variables.

I might want to run "bjam" in the "test" directory -- the parsers_test.cpp includes test for environment variables handling.

Also I checked the stdlib.h provided with MSVC6.5 and that contains

#ifdef _POSIX_ extern char ** environ; /* pointer to environment table */ #else

But I guess this would not cause a problem when _POSIX_ is defined, because the local environ would just hide the one from stdlib.h.

Yes, I think that's okay.

And a small question, is the library supposed to work with 6.5 at all? I get a rather large amount of errors and warnings when I try to build it. I haven't looked into them yet, if it is not supposed to work then I won't spend any time on it.

Nope, it was not supposed to work. For now, I was interested in finalizing interface and getting the library into CVS. I am not sure how hard it will be to support 6.5 -- this remains to be seen. Thanks, Volodya