Static compilation to generate shared library

[Tom St Denis]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Either make your library a standard static library or a standard shared
> library, not this mutant "it's a shared library but it's not" thing.
>   
Along those lines, you can dlopen() a .so and find entry points manually
if you want to avoid making a shared object  application (e.g. link both
statically).

it's less convenient but not impossible.

Tom