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

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-15 19:10:53

> 
> 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
> 

You mean 

g++  foo.cpp -lboost_regex-gcc34-mt-1_35 

Doesn't work?

--John