--- Makefile.orig	2016-11-03 06:33:31 UTC
+++ Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .SUFFIXES: .3 .3.html
 
-CFLAGS		= -g -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings
+CFLAGS		+= -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings -fPIC
 #If you're on Mac OSX without XQuarts, you'll need /usr/X11 instead of /opt/X11!
 CPPFLAGS	= `pkg-config --cflags --silence-errors cairo || echo '-I/opt/X11/include/cairo'`
 VERSION		= 0.1.15
@@ -165,15 +165,15 @@ MANS		= man/kdata_array_alloc.3 \
 		  man/kplot_get_plotcfg.3 \
 	 	  man/kplotcfg_defaults.3
 
-all: libkplot.a $(EXAMPLES)
+all: libkplot.so $(EXAMPLES)
 
 install: all
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/lib
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/include
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man3
-	install -m 0444 libkplot.a $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/lib
+	install -m 0444 libkplot.so $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/lib
 	install -m 0444 kplot.h $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/include
-	install -m 0444 $(MANS) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/man/man3
+	install -m 0444 $(MANS) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man3
 
 www: $(HTMLS) $(PNGS) kplot.tgz kplot.tgz.sha512
 
@@ -186,50 +186,50 @@ installwww: www
 	install -m 0444 kplot.tgz $(PREFIX)/snapshots
 	install -m 0444 kplot.tgz.sha512 $(PREFIX)/snapshots
 
-$(EXAMPLES): libkplot.a
+$(EXAMPLES): libkplot.so
 
-EXAMPLE_LIBS = libkplot.a $(LDADD) -lm 
+EXAMPLE_LIBS = libkplot.so $(LDADD) -lm 
 
-example0: example0.c libkplot.a
+example0: example0.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example1: example1.c libkplot.a
+example1: example1.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example2: example2.c libkplot.a
+example2: example2.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example3: example3.c libkplot.a
+example3: example3.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example4: example4.c libkplot.a
+example4: example4.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example5: example5.c libkplot.a
+example5: example5.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example6: example6.c libkplot.a
+example6: example6.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example7: example7.c libkplot.a
+example7: example7.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example8: example8.c libkplot.a
+example8: example8.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example9: example9.c libkplot.a
+example9: example9.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example10: example10.c libkplot.a
+example10: example10.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example11: example11.c libkplot.a
+example11: example11.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example12: example12.c libkplot.a
+example12: example12.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
-example13: example13.c libkplot.a
+example13: example13.c libkplot.so
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(EXAMPLE_LIBS)
 
 example0.png: example0
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ example13.png: example13
 example13.png: example13
 	./example13
 
-libkplot.a: $(OBJS)
-	$(AR) rs $@ $(OBJS)
+libkplot.so: $(OBJS)
+	$(CC) -shared -o $@ $(OBJS) -L$(PREFIX)/lib -lcairo
 
 $(OBJS): kplot.h compat.h extern.h
 
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ clean:
 	rm -rf .dist
 
 clean:
-	rm -f libkplot.a compat.h test-reallocarray 
+	rm -f libkplot.so compat.h test-reallocarray 
 	rm -f $(EXAMPLES)
 	rm -rf *.dSYM
 	rm -f $(OBJS)