Re: [Boost-users] [general] boost 1.35.0 library naming and bjamarguments priorities

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-15 04:27:37

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> > >   
> > It is specific to mingw. cygwin uses the unix convention of 
> .a and .so 
> > files.
> 

I wrote:

> Really? I'll have to try that -- the redhat website seems to 
> say that -lxyz would never find a '.so' file.
> http://tinyurl.com/6bygtj
> 
> 

On my sytem, compiling boost with a freshly installed cygwin using this
command: 

bash-3.2$ bjam --toolset=gcc --build-type=complete --with-filesystem
stage

produced 

    boost_filesystem-gcc34-1_35.dll
    boost_filesystem-gcc34-1_35.lib
    libboost_filesystem-gcc34-1_35.lib
    (others ommitted)

So cygwin has the same issue, but with an older compiler than mingw.

--John