Hi all, I am trying to compile boost into static libraries on windows, but I am not able to create static libraries. Can someone point out what I am missing ? I am on a windows XP machine with mingW installed and in path. This is a simple task but somehow I am not getting static libraries. The command line I am using on my command prompt is : bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" "-sBUILD=release static multi" stage The output libraries created are .lib and .dll, but the filenames are not starting with libboost-*.lib , they are just boost-*.lib. According to the http://boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Build_Install , windows static libraries should have lib*.lib as the format for the name.. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong ? Thanks. Dhanvi