I am just about ready to explode. I've been going at this for days, and I am no closer to finding my problem. My post may sound a little bit lost, but I'm pretty decent with Linux - this issues just has me stuck.

I am attempting to build and install libdvdcss so I can watch commercial DVD's in Xine, but at building it all falls apart. The strange thing is, it actually compiles - the problem is, I do not get a libdvdcss.so.2.0.7 out of it, just libdvdcss.a and libdvdcss.la. I know I'm supposed to get one out of that, because a fellow Slackware user go over the process - he quite clearly ends up with one. Heck, I even downloaded the older version of libdvdcss used by him just in case it was libdvdcss 1.2.8 playing up - no joy.

Xine actually works - I downloaded a libdvdcss RPM with the .so file and it plays perfectly, so I know it's nothing to do with that. I won't settle for the RPM one however, because this problem has me severely pissed off, and I want to smash this

For that matter, libdvdread is showing an identical problem, but I don't need that one working - Xine functions without it.

It's worth mentioning that compiling xine-lib results in a .so file, so at least it seems my system CAN make them.

My make and configure output seem to offer no insight, but maybe it's just me. I'd put the URLs up, but it seems LinuxQuestions has a rule against new users posting URLs.

Any kind soul have any light to shed?

-Superdeluxe

*.a and *.la are static libs. do ./configure --help to see if there is an option like --enable-shared ( even if there is not an option throw that in there anyway) and see if that will build the shared libs.

you could use rpm2tgz?

Why not try the .tgz package from LinuxPackages -

http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=5477

Use installpkg or pkgtool to install it, and you're done. Worked for me!

Thanks for the help everyone!

__J, I tried your idea, sadly it didn't have any effect. ,/configure --help showed that --enable-shared was present and defaults to yes. I tried also --enable-static=no but I still got the static libraries... Thanks for clarifying that they were static libraries, it got me thinking. I compiled a shared library from the .o files manually, and it has worked a charm

Tuttle and Lim45, thanks for the help, though I said I'd have preferred to get this compiled before I used a tgz, not because I'm one of those MUST COMPILE EVERYTHING people but just because this wasn't working and it had me mad Also thanks for the website Lim45, I've saved that into my bookmarks.