Compiling in a .a file

[canbaby]

Podadmin wrote:

> This seems like it shouldn't be too hard to do, but maybe it can't be 
> done.
>
> I am trying to simply compile one .c file into a .so file.  The 
> problem is that the .c file uses a third party library and they only 
> gave a .h and a .a file.
> Here is what I have so far:
>
> gcc -G -I/usr/informix/incl/tools -I/usr/j2sdk1.4.2_04/include 
> -I/usr/j2sdk1.4.2
> _04/include/solaris 
> -B/usr/fourgen/lib/NewSource/Lib/Dbase/h_encrypt.src aes_jni
> _encryption.c -o libpodenc.so
>
> This compiles correctly but when I run my application it cannot find 
> the function call in the .a file.
>
> Is there a way to compile a .a file into my .so file?
>
>
> Thanks for any help anybody can give.
>
>
U should add the lib to the so