> I have encoutered a problem when building under win2k with cygwin gcc 3.2. > > Boost.Build select an extension for binary files according to OS platform. > So for the Windows paltform it selects .lib for library files and .obj for object files. > > However cygwin is using unix-like .a for libs. When I have compiled regex library, > I got libboost_regex.lib as an output, and cygwin ld did not recognized it. > I had to build regex with sSUFLIB=.a > > Is this a feature or a bug?
Note that there is a cygwin bjam download available, it's pretty easy to build from source as well with a: make CC=gcc although note that cygwin compiled bjam will *not* work with other windows compilers :-( John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/index.htm _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
