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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