>How do I turn the foobar.a into the foobar.so ??? OK, I got it >g++ -Wl,--whole-archive foobar.a -o foobar.so Except... of course, again I get relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_PLTREL24 against symbol... BACK TO SQUARE ONE yes foobar.a is 140MB. What to do?? Thank you, Mark