No linkable libasound found while building alsa-utils-1.0.18 for Atmel board

Hi,
We are trying to build the alsa utility aplay (version 1.0.18)for Atmel AT91SAM9261ek board for arm compiler.When we tried building the alsa-lib-1.0.18, though it got built successfully libasound.so file was not generated.Only libasound.a and libasound.la files were generated.This may be the reason why we get No linkable libasound error while we try to configure alsa-utils-1.0.18.Has anybody faced this problem?Can you please throw some light on it.
Thanks and Regards,
Sowmya

Welcome to Linux Questions.

Only libasound.a and libasound.la files were generated.

'libasound.a' should not be created, unless the option
" ./configure --enable-static " was used.

In fact the shared libraries,
libasound.so.2.0.0* libasound.so.2@ libasound.so@
will be made by default, no options needed for that.

Please see : './configure --help'
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