[Boost-users] Re: why so many .so and .a files for boost?

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 03:09:12

Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
>>     libboost_signals-gcc-1_32.a
>>     libboost_signals-gcc-1_32.so
>>     libboost_signals-gcc.a
>>     libboost_signals-gcc.so
> 
> 'mutil-thread' and 'sigal-thread' support? What's the relationship
> between these versions and the compiler options like '-pthread' ?
> 
> Answers at.. http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Results

But why duplicates of each? On windows I get

libboost_signals-bcb-1_32.dll and
libboost_signals-bcb.dll

Which are both the same.  Why are there libraries without the version 
number in created?

Cheers

Russell