id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 2734,"Cygwin wants .dll, not .so for shared libraries",don2387ward@…,Vladimir Prus,"Building boost 1.37.0 on Cygwin I get shared libraries named xxx.so, but gcc expects files named xxx.dll (as in 1.36.0 and documented in gcc.jam). It appears this is due to changes to tools/build/v2/tools/types/lib.jam since 1.36.0. Also (a separate issue): It would be nice if the xxx.dll files could be put in /usr/local/bin (rather than /usr/local/lib). Is there a way to do this? ",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.38.0,build,Boost 1.37.0,Problem,fixed,cygwin,don2387ward@…