Re: [boost] building boost (regex) in mingw

Subject: Re: [boost] building boost (regex) in mingw
From: Lorenzo Bettini (bettini_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-16 04:56:43

John Maddock wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>> I've also tried
>>>
>>> bjam --build-dir=./tmp --toolset=gcc stage --with-regex
>>>
>>> but this does not create .a .so files, but only .lib files that I
>>> cannot
>>> use with mingw compiler...
> 
> Oh yes you can use them :-)
> 
> For linking to the dll's, just pass the name of the dll on the linker 
> command line, no need for a .a file at all.  For static linking you can 
> either pass the linker the full name of the .lib file, or else rename it 
> to a .a extension so you can use -lboost_regex to link.
> 

Well, actually I need to use my program and the libraries with autotools...

would it work the same even with .dll and .lib?