На Sat, 30 May 2009 19:46:12 +0400 Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> записано:
1. Currently, we use the same naming on mingw as on windows -- foo.dll and foo.lib for shared libs and import libs, and libfoo.lib for static library. Is this OK?
If you pass -lboost_foo to mingw ld then it will look for following libs: libboost_foo.dll.a boost_foo.dll.a libboost_foo.a <prefix>boost_foo.dll libboost_foo.dll boost_foo.dll where <prefix> can be set with --dll-search-prefix option to ld and is 'cyg' by default in case of cygwin. Consequently it will be able to find only the dynamic library (boost_foo.dll). So in order to link against boost on mingw everyone should remember to pass -llibboost_foo instead of -lboost_foo or rename the boost libs. I'd rather prefer if -lboost_foo worked out of the box on all platforms including mingw.