Re: [boost] building boost (regex) in mingw

John Maddock wrote:

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

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I've also tried

bjam --build-dir=./tmp --toolset=gcc stage --with-regex

but this does not create .a .so files, but only .lib files that I cannot use with mingw compiler...

Oh yes you can use them :-)

For linking to the dll's, just pass the name of the dll on the linker command line, no need for a .a file at all. For static linking you can either pass the linker the full name of the .lib file, or else rename it to a .a extension so you can use -lboost_regex to link.

Well, actually I need to use my program and the libraries with autotools... would it work the same even with .dll and .lib?