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

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-15 12:02:59

AMDG

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> John Femiani wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>   
> Hmm, this is strange. Are you sure you are using a bjam executable 
> that is built for cygwin?
> I'll investigate, but have to ask for patience, since I will not be 
> able to look into this before
> weekend.

You're using a windows build of bjam, right?  If you add target-os=cygwin
it will generate *.a and *.dll.a files.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe