[FFmpeg-user] How to compile static FFmpeg to a .so file?

[Ricardo Zacarias]

Carl Zwanzig wrote:

> That's because 'ffmpeg' is an executable, not a library-

I thought that shared object files (.so) were similar to dynamically linked libraries (.dll) and that they can be used as executables. So if I can get ffmpeg to be built as a dll, should I not be able to create a .so file for ffmpeg to execute through?