id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
1907,name of library files on mingw,Johan Boule <bohan.boost@…>,Vladimir Prus,"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.",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.42.0,build,Boost 1.35.0,Problem,fixed,,