MacOS X STATIC_LIB suffix

From: Pedro Ferreira (pedro.ferreira_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-27 04:53:01

Hi all,

is there a reason why the suffix for static libs is '.lib' (in 
v2/tools/types/lib.jam)?
I tried using -lXXX with libXXX.lib and gcc won't find it. It does find 
libXXX.a, though.

Pedro