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Does anyone know how to convert the 'a' lib into a 'so' lib?

Thanks in advance. . .

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If you still think that you have to have a .so library it is not
too difficult to product one.  When you compile glut simply keep an eye
out for the line that creates the .a library and use those .cpp files to create the .so.

If they do something like

g++ -c foo.cpp
g++ -c bar.cpp
ar r libglut.a foo.o bar.o

then you would need to do

g++ -fpic -c foo.cpp
g++ -fpic -c bar.cpp
g++ -o libglut.so foo.o bar.o

Typically this should work, though I dunno if the glut ppl intended for
their library to be static only and have done something in the code to
ensure this.  I also am unsure if this somehow violates their license.

-shane

        /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -G -o <library>.so \
            -h <shared library's intrinsic name> \
            -z allextract <your library>.a -L<paths, often '.'> \
            -l<other libraries as needed, e.g., -lsocket -lnsl ... -lc>

Read the cc man page in /opt/SUNWspro/man and the standard ld
man page for explanations of the options.

My thanks to the OpenSSL distribution for demonstrating this.