diff -aur pythia8235-old/examples/Makefile pythia8235-new/examples/Makefile
--- pythia8235-new/examples/Makefile	2018-03-27 19:15:17.000000000 +0200
+++ pythia8235-new/examples/Makefile	2018-04-16 13:45:00.155056245 +0200
@@ -54,20 +54,20 @@
                 in the top PYTHIA directory)
 
 # PYTHIA libraries.
-$(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a :
+$(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX) :
 	$(error Error: PYTHIA must be built, please run "make"\
                 in the top PYTHIA directory)
 
 # Examples without external dependencies.
-main% : main%.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main% : main%.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ $(CXX_COMMON) $(GZIP_INC) $(GZIP_FLAGS)
 
 # MixMax.
-main23: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main23: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -std=c++11 -w $(CXX_COMMON) $(GZIP_INC) $(GZIP_FLAGS)
 
 # GZIP (required).
-main34: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main34: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(GZIP_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ $(CXX_COMMON) $(GZIP_INC) $(GZIP_FLAGS)
 else
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 
 # HEPMC2.
 main41 main42 main43 main85 main86 main87 main88 main89: $$@.cc\
-	$(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+	$(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(HEPMC2_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -I$(HEPMC2_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 -L$(HEPMC2_LIB) -Wl,-rpath,$(HEPMC2_LIB) -lHepMC\
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 endif
 
 # PROMC.
-main46: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main46: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(PROMC_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -I$(PROMC_INCLUDE)/src -I$(PROMC_INCLUDE)/include\
 	 $(CXX_COMMON) -DPROMC=\"$(PROMC_INCLUDE)\" -Wno-long-long\
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 endif
 
 # EVTGEN (and HEPMC2).
-main48: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main48: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(EVTGEN_USE)$(HEPMC2_USE)$(ENABLE_SHARED),truetruetrue)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -I$(EVTGEN_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 -DEVTGEN_PYTHIA -DEVTGEN_EXTERNAL -Wl,-rpath,$(HEPMC2_LIB)\
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 endif
 
 # FASTJET3.
-main71 main72 main75: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main71 main72 main75: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(FASTJET3_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -I$(FASTJET3_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 -L$(FASTJET3_LIB) -Wl,-rpath,$(FASTJET3_LIB) -lfastjet\
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
 endif
 
 # FASTJET3 with modified Mass-Drop Tagger.
-main74: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main74: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(FASTJET3_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -I$(FASTJET3_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 -L$(FASTJET3_LIB) -Wl,-rpath,$(FASTJET3_LIB) -lfastjet -lRecursiveTools\
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 endif
 
 # FASTJET3 and HEPMC2.
-main81 main82 main83 main84: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main81 main82 main83 main84: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(FASTJET3_USE)$(HEPMC2_USE),truetrue)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -I$(FASTJET3_INCLUDE) -I$(HEPMC2_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 -L$(HEPMC2_LIB) -Wl,-rpath,$(HEPMC2_LIB) -lHepMC\
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 endif
 
 # ROOT (turn off all warnings for readability).
-main91: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main91: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(ROOT_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -w -I$(ROOT_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 `$(ROOTBIN)root-config --cflags`\
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 else
 	@echo "Error: $@ requires ROOT"
 endif
-main92: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a main92.so
+main92: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX) main92.so
 ifeq ($(ROOT_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< main92.so -o $@ -w -I$(ROOT_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 `$(ROOTBIN)root-config --cflags` -Wl,-rpath,./\
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 else
 	@echo "Error: $@ requires ROOT"
 endif
-main92.so: main92Dct.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main92.so: main92Dct.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -w -I$(ROOT_INCLUDE) $(CXX_SHARED) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 `$(ROOTBIN)root-config --cflags`
 main92Dct.cc: main92.h main92LinkDef.h
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
 
 # main93 with several dependencies. It is assumed that
 # Rivet and YODA are installed to system path or appended to it.
-main93: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a main93.so
+main93: $$@.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX) main93.so
 ifeq ($(ROOT_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< main93.so -o $@ -DUSE_ROOT -DUSE_YODA -std=c++11 -w -I$(ROOT_INCLUDE) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 `$(ROOTBIN)root-config --cflags` -Wl,-rpath,./\
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -DUSE_YODA -std=c++11 -w $(CXX_COMMON) -lYODA\
 	 -lHepMC -lRivet  $(GZIP_INC) $(GZIP_FLAGS)
 endif
-main93.so: main93Dct.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+main93.so: main93Dct.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 ifeq ($(ROOT_USE),true)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ -w -I$(ROOT_INCLUDE) $(CXX_SHARED) $(CXX_COMMON)\
 	 `$(ROOTBIN)root-config --cflags`
@@ -190,11 +190,11 @@
 endif
 
 # User-written examples for tutorials, without external dependencies.
-mymain% : mymain%.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+mymain% : mymain%.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ $(CXX_COMMON) $(GZIP_INC) $(GZIP_FLAGS)
 
 # Internally used tests, without external dependencies.
-test% : test%.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8.a
+test% : test%.cc $(PREFIX_LIB)/libpythia8$(LIB_SUFFIX)
 	$(CXX) $< -o $@ $(CXX_COMMON) $(GZIP_INC) $(GZIP_FLAGS)
 
 # Clean.