Static linking on Windows

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

I've inherited gtkmm code used on Linux and am trying to use it on 
Windows. The current build machinery requires the presence of a large 
number of .dll files, which I can pass along to end users (who rarely 
will already have gtk installed), but it would seem cleaner to link 
static versions of the libraries into the application. I'm a bit new to 
this aspect of things. I did search the gtkmm archives and saw one 
similar note but didn't understand how to proceed, so I'm asking my 
naive question here.

Currently the last step in the build looks like this:

g++ -shared -s -mthreads -o cvisual.pyd arrow.lo axial.lo box.lo cone.lo 
cylinder.lo display_kernel.lo ellipsoid.lo frame.lo label.lo 
mouseobject.lo primitive.lo pyramid.lo rectangular.lo renderable.lo 
ring.lo sphere.lo convex.lo curve.lo cvisualmodule.lo faces.lo 
num_util.lo scalar_array.lo slice.lo vector_array.lo 
wrap_arrayobjects.lo wrap_display_kernel.lo wrap_primitive.lo 
wrap_rgba.lo wrap_vector.lo clipping_plane.lo displaylist.lo errors.lo 
extent.lo gl_free.lo lighting.lo quadric.lo rgba.lo texture.lo 
tmatrix.lo vector.lo icososphere.lo numeric_texture.lo points.lo 
atomic_queue.lo random_device.lo text.lo render_surface.lo display.lo 
wrap_ustring.lo winrate.lo wintimer.lo -lpython25 -lboost_python25 
-lgdi32 -lopengl32 -lglu32 -user32 -Wl,-luuid -Lc:/MinGW/lib 
-lgtkglextmm-win32-1.2 -lgdkglextmm-win32-1.2 -lgtkglext-win32-1.0 
-lgdkglext-win32-1.0 -lglu32 -lopengl32 -luser32 -lkernel32 
-lglademm-2.4 -lgtkmm-2.4 -lglade-2.0 -lgdkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 
-lpangomm-1.4 -lcairomm-1.0 -lglibmm-2.4 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtk-win32-2.0 
-lxml2 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -lgdi32 -limm32 -lshell32 -lole32 -latk-1.0 
-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangowin32-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo 
-lpangoft2-1.0 -lfontconfig -lpango-1.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 
-lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lfreetype -lz -Lc:/MinGW/lib -lgthread-2.0 
-lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lboost_thread
/bin/install -c cvisual.pyd 
/c/installers/eclipse-SDK-3.0.1-win32/eclipse/workspace/build/site-packages/cvisual.pyd

What do I need to do to change to static libraries? I'm using MinGW and 
MSYS, and it looks to me like I've got in the MinGW directories static 
as well as dynamic libraries. For example, in c:\MinGW\lib I see 
libgtkglext-win32-1.0.a (static library?) and 
libgtkglext-win32-1.0.dll.a (static library?), as well as 
libgtkglext-win32-1.0-0.dll in c:\MinGW\bin.

Bruce Sherwood

P.S. The application is VPython (see vpython.org), which is a 
cross-platform 3D visualization module for Python. Currently there are 
some files that are Windows-specific, and for various reasons I'm trying 
to eliminate them.