id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 2110,Libryr naming on windows always is *.lib,Roland Schwarz,Dave Abrahams,"In http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#library-naming there is the sentence: (except for static libraries built by the gcc toolset, whose names always end in .a) This is wrong. The mingw toolset makes no exception. Only gcc on cygwin does, but it is unclear if cygwin shall be considered windows... Recommendation: Simply purge the whole ""(...)"". ",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.36.0,Documentation,Boost 1.35.0,Problem,fixed,,