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