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

From: Imran Akbar (imranakbar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-15 14:21:20

Thanks Merrill,
        The error i'm getting is:

.....mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lboost_thread

I am using gcc, but I'm not sure I understand your response - does it matter
what the prefix is and if there's a lib prefix?  Was I right in changing
those to match the unix style?

Thanks,
Imran

On 12/15/05, Merrill Cornish <merrill.cornish_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Imran,
>
> >>>Is the problem not the extensions (.dll/.lib vs .so/.a)?
> >>>Why didn't boost name them properly when I specified mingw?
>
> .dll is for shared libraries on Windows.  .lib is for static libraries on
> Windows.
> .so and .a are for shared/static on Unix/Linux.
>
> It shouldn't matter whether you are using GNU make or not.  MinGW uses
> g++ to do the linking, and it's g++ that has the file ordering requirement
> on the command line.
>
> On the other hand, if you aren't using g++ (or gcc, which calls g++), then
> maybe your linker doesn't have the ordering problem.
>
> Is the error you are getting about unresolved references?
>
> Merrill
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