On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, joost witteveen wrote: > But if you've got the .a file, cannot you make the .so file by: > > mkdir t > cd t > ar -x ../libbsd.a > gcc -o libbsd.so.1.0.0 -shared -W,l-soname,libbsd.so.1 *.o Unless the .o files were compiled with -fpic, you'd have an unsharable shared lib - not a very useful thing. Guy