Archive to shared-lib?

2007-12-24 20:22:00

I'm brainfarting here...

I've got a precompiled app that is choking on not finding a
shared lib, eg. libwhatever.so.2.0. I do have, on my system,
the archive file libwhatever.a.2.0. For the life of me I
can't remember how create the shared lib from the archive file.