https://sourceforge.net/p/slimdata/bugs/11/
--- src/Makefile.in.orig	2016-09-16 11:12:12.000000000 -0500
+++ src/Makefile.in	2016-11-28 13:55:08.000000000 -0600
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 CXX = @CXX@
 CPP = @CPP@
 INSTALL = @INSTALL@
+prefix = @prefix@
+exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
 srcdir = @srcdir@
 
 CFLAGS  := @CFLAGS@ $(OPT) -Wall -fPIC
@@ -101,16 +103,16 @@
 $(STATIC_LIBRARY): $(OBJS)
 	$(AR) rc $@ $(OBJS)
 
-# Mac osX versus linux options for installing SONAME in the library:
+# macOS versus Linux options for compiling the library and specifying the SONAME:
 sysname := $(shell uname -s)
 ifeq ($(sysname), Darwin)
-  SO_OPTIONS = -Wl,-dylib_install_name -Wl,$(SONAME)
+  SO_OPTIONS = -dynamiclib -Wl,-dylib_install_name -Wl,@libdir@/$(SONAME)
 else
-  SO_OPTIONS = -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME) 
+  SO_OPTIONS = -shared -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME)
 endif
 
 $(SO_LIBRARY): $(OBJS) Makefile
-	$(LINK.o) -shared  $(SO_OPTIONS) -o $@.0.0 $(OBJS) $(SOLIBS)
+	$(LINK.o) $(SO_OPTIONS) -o $@.0.0 $(OBJS) $(SOLIBS)
 	ln -f $@.0.0 $@
 	ln -f $@.0.0 $@.0