https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/7310 <p> Boost 1.50, MS Visual Studio 2010. I find that if I attempt to use the + operator on a path::iterator, I get a compiler error saying that the method "advance" is not part of path::iterator. If I comment out my use of this operator, and instead use only ++, then everything compiles. </p> <p> Here are the details from the compiler: </p> <pre class="wiki">boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp(544): error C2039: 'advance' : is not a member of 'boost::filesystem::path::iterator' boost/filesystem/path.hpp(570) : see declaration of 'boost::filesystem::path::iterator' boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp(690) : see reference to function template instantiation 'void boost::iterator_core_access::advance&lt;Derived&gt;(Facade &amp;,__w64 int)' being compiled with [ Derived=boost::filesystem::path::iterator, Facade=boost::filesystem::path::iterator ] boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp(689) : while compiling class template member function 'boost::filesystem::path::iterator &amp;boost::iterator_facade&lt;Derived,Value,CategoryOrTraversal&gt;::operator +=(__w64 int)' with [ Derived=boost::filesystem::path::iterator, Value=const boost::filesystem::path, CategoryOrTraversal=boost::bidirectional_traversal_tag ] boost/filesystem/path.hpp(574) : see reference to class template instantiation 'boost::iterator_facade&lt;Derived,Value,CategoryOrTraversal&gt;' being compiled with [ Derived=boost::filesystem::path::iterator, Value=const boost::filesystem::path, CategoryOrTraversal=boost::bidirectional_traversal_tag ] </pre> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/7310 Trac 1.4.3