[Boost-build] MinGW: .lib rather than .a?

From: Edd Dawson (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-22 13:26:01

Hello,

I hope someone can put me out of my misery :)

I'm building the boost trunk with MinGW using:

bjam toolset=gcc variant=release threading=multi link=static --builddir=p:\boost 
--libdir=p:\boost --includedir=p:\boost install

The libraries that are build have a .lib extension, rather than .a.

Is this intentional? It means I cannot link boost libraries in to my programs in 
the normal way (e.g. -Lpath/to/libs -lboost_thread-mgw42-mt-sd-1_35) as the full 
library paths cannot be resolved by the linker.

Edd