david - apparently the mingw compiler has a couple issues...

1) i had to make iterator and const_iterator friends of each other so they could see each other's private constructors
2) apparently there is a bug in the name-lookup related to inline typedef structs and the friend keyword... had to move the typedef struct const_iterator to after the actual struct.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/fbasicstring.h b/src/fbasicstring.h
index 8bbbe91..cac7dd7 100644
--- a/src/fbasicstring.h
+++ b/src/fbasicstring.h
@@ -124,9 +124,10 @@ namespace Bu
                 }
                 
                 struct iterator;
-                typedef struct const_iterator
+                struct const_iterator
                 {
                         friend class FBasicString<chr, nMinSize, chralloc, chunkalloc>;
+                        friend struct iterator;
                 private:
                         const_iterator( Chunk *pChunk, int iPos ) :
                                 pChunk( pChunk ),
@@ -349,11 +350,12 @@ namespace Bu
                                 }
                                 return const_iterator( NULL, 0 );
                         }
-                } const_iterator;
+                };
                 
                 typedef struct iterator
                 {
                         friend class FBasicString<chr, nMinSize, chralloc, chunkalloc>;
+                        friend struct const_iterator;
                 private:
                         iterator( Chunk *pChunk, int iPos ) :
                                 pChunk( pChunk ),
@@ -590,6 +592,8 @@ namespace Bu
                         }
                 } iterator;
 
+                typedef struct const_iterator const_iterator;
+
                 //typedef chr *iterator;
 //              typedef const chr *const_iterator;
                 // typedef iterator const_iterator;