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