name of library files on mingw

[Johan Boule <bohan.boost@…>]

When linking with mingw, a -lxxx option leads to the following files being searched, in order: 1) libxxx.dll.a 2) xxx.dll.a 3) libxxx.a (this should be the static lib) 4) <prefix>xxx.dll (e.g. cygxxx.dll on cygwin) 5) libxxx.dll 6) xxx.dll

However, boost's build system doesn't follow mingw's convention and produces: libxxx.lib (the static lib) xxx.lib (the dynamic import lib) xxx.dll

This means mingw will never find the files of the static lib and dynamic import lib. Hopefully, mingw has the ability to link directly against the dll file (providing it exists), and that's actually the one it will always pick, as the last file looked for is xxx.dll.

[bohan <bohan.boost@…>]

As i just saw in gcc.jam (boost build v2, 1.35), the search pattern is different with -Bstatic: it looks for libxxx.a, then xxx.lib.

[Vladimir Prus]

(In [60062]) Adjust library names on mingw/cygwin. Fixes #1907

[Johan Boule]

Thanks a lot for revisiting this old issue. The new libnames in svn changeset/revision 60062 look good :)

[Vladimir Prus]

Thanks for checking. I've now added this fix to 1.43 release notes, guess it's all done.