Re: [Boost-build] MinGW: .lib rather than .a?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-22 13:32:09

Edd Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I hope someone can put me out of my misery :)
> 
> I'm building the boost trunk with MinGW using:
> 
> bjam toolset=gcc variant=release threading=multi link=static --builddir=p:\boost
> --libdir=p:\boost --includedir=p:\boost install
> 
> The libraries that are build have a .lib extension, rather than .a.
> 
> Is this intentional? 

Yes.

> It means I cannot link boost libraries in to my programs in 
> the normal way (e.g. -Lpath/to/libs -lboost_thread-mgw42-mt-sd-1_35) as the full
> library paths cannot be resolved by the linker.

Can you clarify? It is believed that the search rules for mingw are as
below, and therefore .lib files should be found.

        # windows (mingw,cygwin) -Bstatic -lxxx
        #    libxxx.a
        #    xxx.lib
        #
        # windows (mingw,cygwin) -Bdynamic -lxxx
        #    libxxx.dll.a
        #    xxx.dll.a
        #    libxxx.a
        #    xxx.lib
        #    cygxxx.dll (*)
        #    libxxx.dll
        #    xxx.dll
        #    libxxx.a

- Volodya