Re: [Boost-users] I can't build boost!

AMDG Robert Dailey wrote:

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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I've checked in the patch (with additional changes the "bjam --help" output) to trunk, and merged to release branch.

I have one more question Valdimir, if you don't mind.

I noticed that the library names (for static libraries) are named like so (On Windows):

libboost_filesystem-mt.lib

The 'lib' prefix is a linux pattern that normally isn't used on Windows. This actually confuses the FindBoost.cmake module in CMake. Has it always been this way for static boost libraries? I know the boost import libraries (when building shared libraries) never had the 'lib' prefix.

Yes it has always been this way. The naming convention is static library: libboost_xxx.lib import library: boost_xxx.lib dll: boost_xxx.dll This allows the import libraries to be distinguished from the static libraries. In Christ, Steven Watanabe