Re: [boost] Incorrect extensions for cygwin gcc builds

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-08 09:00:17

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:52:18AM -0000, John Maddock wrote:
> > 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 :-(
>

If I compile cygwin version of bjam, would it solve my problem? I thought, that
the problem is not in bjam, but in tools settings ...

Pavol