Re: [Boost-users] Problem building boost on Windows

Nathan Ridge wrote:

One more small thing: MinGW didn't recognize the .lib files produced by bjam. Simply renaming them to .a files worked for me, but I just wanted to make sure this is not another hack that hides some underlying problem and will bite me later.

This should be fixed in SVN HEAD -- which now uses .a for static libraries on mingw. - Volodya