i just checked http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=151 Comment 2 by kasperl@chromium.org, Feb 23, 2009 Sorry about not responding to this earlier. We'd be happy to accept patches for adding a SONAME to the generated shared object files to our SCons-based build system. i had to make sure you noticed :) Cheers, Jérémy.