Re: [Boost-users] [general] boost 1.35.0 library naming and bjam arguments priorities

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-15 19:16:21

AMDG

Niko Vuokko wrote:
> It generated libraries like (the two dll.a are identical)
>
> boost_regex-gcc34-mt-1_35.dll
> libboost_regex-gcc34-mt-1_35.dll.a
> libboost_regex-gcc34-mt.dll.a
> ...
>
> I understood (is this right?) that dll's here are the shared libs and
> dll.a's are static libs, but why the extensions?

The dll.a's are import libraries for the .dll's

> Furthermore I can't
> link with these, not with -lboost... or -llibboost... or whatever.

Is the directory in which the libraries are installed in the linker's 
search path?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe