Re: [jamboost] MacOS X STATIC_LIB suffix

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-27 10:20:29

On Friday 27 May 2005 19:08, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:53:01AM +0100, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That's wrong. That slipped in went in there when Vladimir committed
> a fix to make .dylib the extension for shared libraries on Mac.
>
> It should be: .dylib for shared libraries, .a for static libraries.

Fixed in CVS.
Thanks for the report!

- Volodya

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