[Boost-users] boost builds dll's on mingw, can't use

From: Imran Akbar (imranakbar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-15 12:43:26

Hi,
    I've been having problems linking to boost using mingw.  I installed
boost linking to mingw, but it installed the necessary boost-mgw files with
either .dll or .lib extensions, which mingw can't use!  I tried renaming the
.lib's to .a's and the .dll's to .so's, which didn't work.  then I tried
adding a 'lib' prefix to each .a or .so, which still didn't work... there
isn't actually a boost_thread library file, it's got some version number at
the end - would that be a problem?  Did I install it correctly?  I'm linking
to it using -lboost_thread in mingw (gcc).

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,
Imran