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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:25:12 +0200
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Václav Haisman wrote:
> Mattias Brändström wrote:
>>bjam -sTOOLS=gcc --with-test stage
>>
>>And that command produced the test libraries for me. The only difference
>>from your libraries was that their extension was .lib instead of .a. How
>>did you manage to get .a libraries? Is there any difference between .a
>>and .lib in Cygwin?
> 
> Are you sure that you are using Cygwin's GCC? Or even any GCC? For me,
> Boost produces only .a archives or .dlls.
> 

Yes, I am quite sure. I use a freshly installed Cygwin and I guess that 
the boost build scripts will compile with gcc if I compile the way I 
descibed above.

>>In what way is the test libraries broken under Cygwin?
> 
> Unless I add --without-test I get this error after which the whole build
> process tops:
> 
> unknown target type for
> <@boost!libs!test!build>libboost_prg_exec_monitor.dll
> 

Have you tried to just compile the test libraries? If I remember 
correctly, building dynamic test libraries is indeed broken under Cygwin 
but static libraries should work.

:.:: mattias

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