Mattias Brändström wrote: > Hello! > > I want to write some C++ programs that use boost and compile them using > cygwin. What is the recomended way of doing this? > > Usually when I use the boost libraries (on Fedora Core) I would be able > to link my program using gcc by providing -lboost_date_time on the > command line. With cygwin I can't do that since there is no > libboost_date_time.a library insalled. However, these libraries are > installed: > > /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s-1_33.a* > /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s.a* This is called 'versioned' layout.
>
> In my build scripts I would still like to be able to specify
> -lboost_date_time and not -lboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s. Is it the
> intention of the maintainer of the cygwin boost package that I should
> make a symbolic link (ln -s libboost_date_time.a
> libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s.a) to the library that I want to use?
You can either add the links or you can have something like
BOOST_SUFFIX=-gcc-mt-s and use -lboost_date_time${BOOST_SUFFIX}.
>
> In my opinion it would be preferable to have one of the different
> variants of the date library installed as libboost_date_time.a. Is there
> any special reason why it's done like it is today?
Marking the version in the way it is now done is prefered by those who
approve this package.
>
> Another question regarding the cygwin boost package is why the test
> libraries are missing?
Because its build is broken on Cygwin.
>
> I am curious. =)
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
Vaclav Haisman
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