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Message: [QUOTE="kwikius, post: 3406266"] On Jan 16, 6:53 am, The Lord of the Strings The problems you have are very much related to VC++6. In versions of VC ++ including VC7.1 Microsoft decided to make the compiler as far as possible conformant to the C++ standard at the expense of backward compatibility. The result was a great compiler, and for example in VC7.1 and beyond you can do things with templates that are simply impossible in VC6.0, but things that worked in VC6 are often invalid fro the point of view of conforming C++. Its a known problem of C++ that simple errors can cause huge error messages ( In the draft of the next version of the standard there are move sto try to help with this issue), so if you are getting voluminous error messages when trying to compile the old code, things often look much worse that they actually are. It is often worth looking at the last paragraph of the error message first. Also error messages can often give misleading hints as to the true error. OTOH what they say is a good place to start. It will also help to get a grasp of some of the nuances of the language as laid down in the C++ standard, so that you can identify how to fix problems in your old code. I would guess at the moment you are in the worst stage of porting your old code. Persevere, watch the list of error mesages get a bit shorter and you are well on the way. HTH regards Andy Little [/QUOTE]