Re: [Boost-build] Searching for static and shared libraries

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-01 18:28:05

On Saturday 01 September 2007 18:08:23 Roland Schwarz wrote:

> On mingw (PE Format) ld searches for:
> 
> -Bstatic -lxxx :
>      libxxx.a
>      xxx.lib
> 
> -Bdynamic -lxxx :
>      libxxx.dll.a
>      xxx.dll.a
>      libxxx.a
>      xxx.lib
>      libxxx.dll
>      xxx.dll
>      libxxx.a
> 
> Now the problem becomes understandable:
> Since bb's default naming of libraries on windows is:
> 
> Static lib: libxxx.a
> Shared lib: xxx.dll and xxx.a for the import lib.

Thanks for the analysis! I'm somewhat surprised by the weird
names that are being looked up -- I'd never expect that!

> The (proposed) solution:
> ========================
> 
> 1) Change naming on windows to
>      Static libs: libxxx.lib
>      DLL's :      xxx.dll
>      Import libs: xxx.lib
>    This naming is also more in line with the other windows
>    compilers.

This seems OK,  for mingw. Note that for cygwin, we have a bug
report about wrong naming:

        http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1058

Do you have an idea what we currently produce on cygwin, and what
we should produce?

Thanks,
Volodya