How to static link a program?

[James Frye <frye cs unr edu>]

Hi,

OK, this is probably a dumb question, but I can't find the answer.  How
can I statically link a Gtk program?  That is, I've written a program that
uses Gtk graphics (and the GtkGL extension widget to allow OpenGl).  It
works fine on my personal Linux boxes, where I have control and can
install the shared libs.  Now I want to run it on our Linux cluster (and
other people may want to run it on their machines).  I have no root
access there, and very little say in what gets installed.

So how can I statically link my program (or at least the GtkGl library
part of it) so that the executable will run on any system?  There doesn't
seem to be a make or configure option to even make static libs...

Thanks,
James