On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alain Leblanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aalebl@gmail.com">aalebl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks. bjam --help describes it well. Probably a case where RTFM<br> would have been an appropriate answer.<br> <br> a<br> <br> <br> 2008/10/28 Steven Watanabe <<a href="mailto:watanabesj@gmail.com">watanabesj@gmail.com</a>>:<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> AMDG<br> ><br> > Alain Leblanc wrote:<br> >><br> >> I just built boost 1.36 for the mac and all the library names have<br> >> xgcc40 inserted in the middle, such as<br> >> libboost_iostreams-xgcc40-mt-1_36.dylib. It breaks my makefiles that<br> >> contain the option " -lboost_iostreams". Is there a reason for the<br> >> xgcc40 in this version and not the others, and is there a way to<br> >> instruct bjam not to include it in the filename.<br> >><br> ><br> > Pass --layout=system to bjam to prevent the library names from being<br> > mangled with the compiler/options/version.<br> ><br> > In Christ,<br> > Steven Watanabe</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I'm responding to this topic to ask about how to make the LIB files not prefix with "lib". For example, right now I'm running the following command:<br> <br>bjam --toolset=msvc --build-type=complete --layout=system debug stage<br><br>An example of how a library is output is:<br><br>libboost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib<br><br>I would like the libs to look like:<br><br>boost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib<br> <br>Any idea how I can do this? Also, I need to figure out how to make the boost build process dynamically link against the standard C++ libraries, as right now it is statically linking against them.<br>