building and linking a shared library

im trying to build a shared library on a windows cygwin platform using g++, and later link it with another cpp file: i use the following commands:

// generate object file

g++ -g -c -Wall -fPIC beat11.cpp -o beat11.o

// to generate library from the object file

g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libbeat.so.1 -o libbeat.so.1.0.1 beat11.o -lc

// to link it with another cpp file; -I option to refer to the library header file

g++ -L. -lbeat -I . -o checkbeat checkbeat.cpp

while linking, the following error crops up:

/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
     cannot find -llibbeat.so.1.0.1

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

the library gets created just fine, but i can only find libbeat.so.1.0.1, not libbeat.so or libbeat.so.1(or are they not supposed to be there?)

one of the other questions suggests creating a symlink to libbeat.so.1.0.1, but that too didnt work