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

From: Niko Vuokko (niko.vuokko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-15 19:00:50

Hi,

I have a similar (though n00b-like) problem with 1.35 linking.
I compiled 1.35 from Cygwin shell with

./configure --with-libraries=... --without-icu --prefix=...
make
make install

It generated libraries like (the two dll.a are identical)

boost_regex-gcc34-mt-1_35.dll
libboost_regex-gcc34-mt-1_35.dll.a
libboost_regex-gcc34-mt.dll.a
...

I understood (is this right?) that dll's here are the shared libs and
dll.a's are static libs, but why the extensions? Furthermore I can't
link with these, not with -lboost... or -llibboost... or whatever.
Could someone push me in the right direction? I was able to link
with 1.33-r1 binaries installed from Cygwin's repo.

niko

John Femiani wrote:
> On my system, 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