Static compilation of hello world

[Patricia Balbastre Betoret <patricia disca upv es>]

Hi!!

I want to build statically a simple Hello World program. I have compiled glib, 
pango, atk and gtk with --enable-static, so I have all .a libraries. However, 
I get this error when compiling:

gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`  -static -o base-static
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In function 
`_start':
: undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [static] Error 1

There is no problem when I compile without the static label:
gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`  -o base base.c

I have read somewhere that static compilation does not work very well in gtk, 
but I do not know why. I really need to make gtk applications static, so if 
it will be impossible (or very difficult) in gtk, it will be better for me to 
know it in advance before continue.

Thank you very much for your replies.
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Patricia Balbastre Betoret
Departamento de Informatica de Sistemas y Computadores
Camino de Vera, 14, E-46071, Valencia, Spain
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