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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:58:59 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mattias_Br=E4ndstr=F6m?= <thebrasse AT brasse DOT org>
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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*

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?

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?

Another question regarding the cygwin boost package is why the test 
libraries are missing?

I am curious. =)

Regards,
Mattias

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