Thanks Merrill,<br> The error i'm getting is:<br> <br> .....mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lboost_thread<br> <br> I am using gcc, but I'm not sure I understand your response - does it matter what the prefix is and if there's a lib prefix? Was I right in changing those to match the unix style?<br> <br> Thanks,<br> Imran<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Merrill Cornish</b> <<a href="mailto:merrill.cornish@earthlink.net">merrill.cornish@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Imran,<br><br>>>>Is the problem not the extensions (.dll/.lib vs .so/.a)?<br>>>>Why didn't boost name them properly when I specified mingw?<br><br>.dll is for shared libraries on Windows. .lib is for static libraries on Windows. <br>.so and .a are for shared/static on Unix/Linux.<br><br>It shouldn't matter whether you are using GNU make or not. MinGW uses<br>g++ to do the linking, and it's g++ that has the file ordering requirement<br>on the command line. <br><br>On the other hand, if you aren't using g++ (or gcc, which calls g++), then<br>maybe your linker doesn't have the ordering problem.<br><br>Is the error you are getting about unresolved references?<br><br>Merrill<br> _______________________________________________<br>Boost-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Boost-users@lists.boost.org">Boost-users@lists.boost.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users"> http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>