On Linux, you should be able to extract all the .o files from the .a and combine them into a .so.
+---------- On Oct 25, Andrew Piskorski said: > Also, I'm thinking that if I link libfoo.a statically into my nsd8x > binary, I can still create myfoo.so as a loadable module - there's no > reason I need to also link it statically, right?