Static gtk application

[Johan <jo_ni telia com>]

Hello.
I have been trying to compile a gtk program staticly
but have failed every time.
The linking failes with the message "ld: cannot find -lgtk-x11-2.0".

I am using GTK2 and have tried static compilation on two different
systems, redhat 7.1 and rootlinux 1.2 and with different applications.

Is this a common problem ? anyone knows how to solve it ?

Thanks / Johan