Re: [boost] Incorrect extensions for cygwin gcc builds

From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-08 06:52:18

> I have encoutered a problem when building under win2k with cygwin gcc 3.2.
>
> Boost.Build select an extension for binary files according to OS platform.
> So for the Windows paltform it selects .lib for library files and .obj for
object files.
>
> However cygwin is using unix-like .a for libs. When I have compiled regex
library,
> I got libboost_regex.lib as an output, and cygwin ld did not recognized
it.
> I had to build regex with sSUFLIB=.a
>
> Is this a feature or a bug?

Note that there is a cygwin bjam download available, it's pretty easy to
build from source as well with a:

make CC=gcc

although note that cygwin compiled bjam will *not* work with other windows
compilers :-(

John Maddock
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