Embedded Python Linking Problem

[Ian Terrell]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message news:<bWR6a.318289$AA2.11987004 at news2.tin.it>...
> [alex at lancelot leap]$ g++ hello.cc -lpython2.2
> [alex at lancelot leap]$ ./a.out
> Hello, world!

My try:
$ g++ hello.cc -o hello -lpython2.2
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

> So the problem is, where's your libpython2.2.so ?

Indeed that is the problem.  Doing a Gnome search for file
"libpython2.2.so" shows no results.  I do find a "libpython2.2.a" in
/usr/lib/python2.2/config.  Compiling with various flags on g++ with
libpython2.2.a does not work.

To install Python I simply did a ./configure;make.  Is there anything
more to do to get libpython2.2.so?

Thanks for the help,
Ian