OSX: How do I convert a static library to a dynamic one?

Question

Suppose I have a third party library called somelib.a on a Mac running Mountain Lion with Xcode 4.4 installed. I want to get a dynamic library out of it called somelib.dylib. An

Answer 1

According to the ld manual, -noall_load is the default and is ignored. (If you use it, you get an error message: ld: warning: option -noall_load is obsolete and being ignored)

Apparently the way to get -all_load to apply to only one library is as follows:

-Wl,-force_load,somelib.a