Hi,
    I've been having problems linking to boost using mingw.  I installed boost linking to mingw, but it installed the necessary boost-mgw files with either .dll or .lib extensions, which mingw can't use!  I tried renaming the .lib's to .a's and the .dll's to .so's, which didn't work.  then I tried adding a 'lib' prefix to each .a or .so, which still didn't work... there isn't actually a boost_thread library file, it's got some version number at the end - would that be a problem?  Did I install it correctly?  I'm linking to it using -lboost_thread in mingw (gcc).

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,
Imran